do you have a dark wallpaper or use dark mode all the time?
I don't and it was very distracting when I used it with the notch. Plus the menu bar items keep disappearing due to running out of space.
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MacBook Pro Now Features Up to 24 Hours Battery Life—Longest Ever in a Mac
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I don't and it was very distracting when I used it with the notch. Plus the menu bar items keep disappearing due to running out of space.
Never use dark mode and dont use dark wallpaper. I am sure it's bothersome for many. I was just surprised I had completely forgot about while using the computer.
Maybe one day they will figure out the technology to make batteries that you can change, imagine if there was a button you press.... AND THE BATTERY COMES OUT! wow... If only... 
If you are of the age, you’ve already lived through this, where laptop batteries might give you 2 hours of usage. And additional batteries were not cheap, nor did any of them last for more than a couple of years before they started to swell and fail.Maybe one day they will figure out the technology to make batteries that you can change, imagine if there was a button you press.... AND THE BATTERY COMES OUT! wow... If only...
Refurbished M2 Max MBPro w/64gb ram continues to be my fave bargain...and I edit complex multi-layer 4k video often.
It was noted as a bargain in multiple analyses when M3 arrived, and really continues to be so. Resale/used prices correspondingly continue to be high for that model. Upgrade to M4 if you want to be drunk with power, but I'm quite happy to wait till the M5....when our AI overlords really take control....
It was noted as a bargain in multiple analyses when M3 arrived, and really continues to be so. Resale/used prices correspondingly continue to be high for that model. Upgrade to M4 if you want to be drunk with power, but I'm quite happy to wait till the M5....when our AI overlords really take control....
Everyone has done this for a long time.. the battery length specified as the headline is always for video playback. Because during video playback the processors is effectively mostly idle and it’s custom designed video decoding hardware is doing the work.. just sipping battery power.
Also take note in the small print about display brightness. A lot of people use laptops in brightly lit rooms and sometimes next to windows or outside and the display is a battery hog, it can decimate battery runtime, especially on older worn out batteries.
I’m happy the 16” embeds the largest battery you can take on a plane and just leaves it at that.
MacOS cheats though since it has done things like disable WIFI when screen sleeps on battery that other OS' don't do.
I've got a 16" MBP M1 MAX with 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD...Nope not a fairy tale, just reality. Still after those years and a few cycles.
Completley agree. Especially for the 14".
Usually, Apple does not lie on these tests, but they vastly overestimate real world usage.
On a 14", Max lasts 8 hours max for me, maybe 10 if careful. 16" 10, maybe 12.
And that's with brightness turned down, and without any sustained heavy tasks.
It has a beautiful notch with an insanely cool geometric shape, providing an additional line of text on the screen. Way nicer than boring rectangular screens.
I wish they'd do something about lower two corners tho
Modern MacBooks only have incredible battery life until you start pushing them hard. Then you'd get the same 1.5 - 2 hours of battery life, like any other laptop.
Lol, I don't believe you. Unless all you do is open a few tabs and an e-mail on it.
Then you have a very
Yup. If it really lasts you that long, you don't need a Max or 64 RAM, almost by definition.
They do, it’s called the Apple Watch Ultra. Mine easily does 48 hours and gets damed near 72 hours. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 is advertised as getting 36 hours. So your prayer has been answered, Apple has just the watch for you… 😉
Even if I did, which I don't (software development with numerous docker images, plus day trading predominantly), then it is still true
In theory, the ones with Thunderbolt 5 ports should have better external display support due to TB5's extra bandwidth. But I guess it's a moot point since there aren't any Thunderbolt 5 displays yet.
To be fair, on Mac that's fine. On iPhones, they're extremely annoying. Especially when there's almost no one else who does any of those at any price point