Macbook Air M1 low battery and burn smell

[mtl24]

Hello,

I have a brand new (10 days) Macbook Air M1 and I feel the battery is emptying rather fast. I think remembering reading when it came out that the battery life was extraordinary (15 hours?) but so far, after 4-5 hours it's down to 50% already... Is that normal?

The battery "app" says it's normal.

Just surfing, nothing odd or special or taxing.

Also, today there is a smell coming from it, a slight burn/glue smell from inside... I touch everything and nothing is hot, everything seems fine to me. But the smell has been there all day today...

Should I worry?

Thanks!

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

What’s your display brightness set at?

 

[mtl24]

What’s your display brightness set at?

It usually is at 50% and usually goes back to that... so it's not the display

 

[kitKAC]

I'd take the bottom case off and visually check the machine if you're smelling burning...

 

[Svetlin]

I have a brand new (10 days) Macbook Air M1 and I feel the battery is emptying rather fast. I think remembering reading when it came out that the battery life was extraordinary (15 hours?) but so far, after 4-5 hours it's down to 50% already... Is that normal?

Depending on the task you are doing this is probably normal. 15 hours is the rated battery, in reality it`s slightly worse. You can always install an app to see current power draw, I can recommend "Stats" since its free and works with the M1. At 50% screen brightness and normal use my computer pulls around 4W.

As for the smell, never experienced this myself, but it seems worrying.

 

[michaelscarn]

Instead of removing the bottom case and possibly breaking the terms of the warranty, just exchange it for a new one.

 

[Queen6]

Instead of removing the bottom case and possibly breaking the terms of the warranty, just exchange it for a new one.

The better advice...

Q-6

 

[Gunes66]

Hello,

I have a brand new (10 days) Macbook Air M1 and I feel the battery is emptying rather fast. I think remembering reading when it came out that the battery life was extraordinary (15 hours?) but so far, after 4-5 hours it's down to 50% already... Is that normal?

The battery "app" says it's normal.

Just surfing, nothing odd or special or taxing.

Also, today there is a smell coming from it, a slight burn/glue smell from inside... I touch everything and nothing is hot, everything seems fine to me. But the smell has been there all day today...

Should I worry?

Thanks!

Did you find the problem? my battery is going 4-6 hours. I bought it 3 months ago. I'm on 32 cycles my battery health is 99

 

[mtl24]

Did you find the problem? my battery is going 4-6 hours. I bought it 3 months ago. I'm on 32 cycles my battery health is 99

I called Apple, they made me reinstall stuff and pretty much told me 5-6 hours non stop was about it... That the 15 hours "promised" in the media wasn't for non stop using...