Suspect weak battery on M1 Macbook Pro 14"

[neversaynever123]

Hello,

I have the Macbook Pro M1 14" base model. In an hour and a half of watching listening to music on youtube on 50% volume (speakers) and screen at 50% I'm using 20% of my battery.

Is that not quick? I'm reading people getting 10h of battery, I seem to be recharging 2 times a day.

relevant screenshot:

Boom3D seems to be consuming alot. I'm at 34 cycles in 3 weeks of use. Any tips?

 

[white7561]

Hello,

I have the Macbook Pro M1 14" base model. In an hour and a half of watching listening to music on youtube on 50% volume (speakers) and screen at 50% I'm using 20% of my battery.

Is that not quick? I'm reading people getting 10h of battery, I seem to be recharging 2 times a day.

relevant screenshot:

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Boom3D seems to be consuming alot. I'm at 34 cycles in 3 weeks of use. Any tips?

I want to ask a question since you're using boom3d. Do you notice the memory leak of the app when not rebooting the laptop for days? If you check the memory leak is usually on the coreaudio driver which says boom3d

 

[UBS28]

Maybe try it without Boom3D and see if your battery life is better?

 

[neversaynever123]

I want to ask a question since you're using boom3d. Do you notice the memory leak of the app when not rebooting the laptop for days? If you check the memory leak is usually on the coreaudio driver which says boom3d

Will let you know - no memory leak for now.

Windows Server is a 14,67gb though.

 

[bill-p]

Check CPU usage and see if anything is constantly using high CPU. I saw WindowServer running at 100% on my system very often especially after watching fullscreen Youtube videos. It seems to have been resolved after meddling with Develop options in Safari, but it looks like you are using Firefox and you may be running into a different problem.

 

[neversaynever123]

Check CPU usage and see if anything is constantly using high CPU. I saw WindowServer running at 1

Check CPU usage and see if anything is constantly using high CPU. I saw WindowServer running at 100% on my system very often especially after watching fullscreen Youtube videos. It seems to have been resolved after meddling with Develop options in Safari, but it looks like you are using Firefox and you may be running into a different problem.

00% on my system very often especially after watching fullscreen Youtube videos. It seems to have been resolved after meddling with Develop options in Safari, but it looks like you are using Firefox and you may be running into a different problem.

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Maybe try it without Boom3D and see if your battery life is better?

Sorry, forgot to mention the problem was there before installing Boom3D.

 

[neversaynever123]

108% CPU on Windowsserver - what gives? Closed all youtube videos, only firefox open on this tab.

 

[Tagbert]

108% CPU on Windowsserver - what gives? Closed all youtube videos, only firefox open on this tab.

YouTube is notorious for being a cpu hog on any browser except for Chrome (oddly enough)

 

[bill-p]

YouTube is notorious for being a cpu hog on any browser except for Chrome (oddly enough)

No, you don't get it. After going fullscreen with Youtube a few times, no matter the browser or video, MacOS Monterey seems to keep WindowServer pegged at 100% indefinitely on the new 14" and 16" MacBooks. This destroys battery life pretty much, and I suspect it is the reason why many are seeing poor battery life on the new 14".

 

[Vermifuge]

How long have you had the Mac? Is the drive still indexing in the background ?

Discord is also a hog. Try the Discord Canary build.

 

[white7561]

No, you don't get it. After going fullscreen with Youtube a few times, no matter the browser or video, MacOS Monterey seems to keep WindowServer pegged at 100% indefinitely on the new 14" and 16" MacBooks. This destroys battery life pretty much, and I suspect it is the reason why many are seeing poor battery life on the new 14".

Mine doesn't do that. I'm using chrome for arm and on 12.1 beta 1.

I do notice a bug which idk if it's been fixed on the later betas or not. That if you full screen an HDR content on a local media player. And disable the show menu bar even on full screen. It'll take more power for whatever reason. When the menu bar is visible you will see the cpu usage dropping down like usual. Workaround is to enable the menu bar to be visible on full screen apps also..

Try that. If it's the same bug. That should fix it till it's fixed

 

[neversaynever123]

Since updating to 12.1 the battery seems a lot better. Thanks for everyone's comments.