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I travel with a tiny 15W GaN charger, only slightly bigger than my thumb. I don't know what you do with your MBP, but for 15W charges up overnight and holds ba

I travel with a tiny 15W GaN charger, only slightly bigger than my thumb. I don't know what you do with your MBP, but for 15W charges up overnight and holds battery level or even slowly charges while being used. If you're transcoding something or gaming perhaps you could get it to slowly discharge.

SkyPuncher 4y ago
There are tons of things that cause my MBP to burn through power. Slack is the most obvious. Then, you have Chrome that will sometimes fire update some high rendering page. The most sure fire way to kill the battery is fire up an IDE and do any sort of software development. Introspection, compilation, specs, etc all take up a bunch of battery. With that being said, you certainly don't need 100W for a laptop. In fact, I'm not even sure my Mac can cool itself appropriately with high CPU usage and 50W of power. Most people could get through a full day with a 15W charger. Laptop might be nearly dead at the end of the day, but 15W will fill it back up over night.
- brainbag 4y ago
  Anecdotal, but my M1 Max seems to drain battery very slowly with my daily development with all kinds of things running. Firefox, Brave, Slack, VSCode, Mail, docker containers, etc. It's pretty amazing how long they last. The other day I even accidentally left Factorio running because I got distracted getting my kid ready for school, and I hadn't noticed until a few hours later in a meeting when I heard the technology research sound. It was not plugged in the entire time, and I still had at least half the battery life.
fullstop 4y ago
I have one of these and it is fantastic: https://www.ravpower.com/products/rp-pc151-100w-2-usb-c-ports-pd-wall-charging-adapter https://www.ravpower.com/products/rp-pc151-100w-2-usb-c-port... When I got it it was closer to $50, though, and not $70.

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I travel with a tiny 15W GaN charger, only slightly bigger than my thumb. I don't know what you do with your MBP, but for 15W charges up overnight and holds ba

by plantain 4y ago

SkyPuncher 4y ago
There are tons of things that cause my MBP to burn through power. Slack is the most obvious. Then, you have Chrome that will sometimes fire update some high rendering page. The most sure fire way to kill the battery is fire up an IDE and do any sort of software development. Introspection, compilation, specs, etc all take up a bunch of battery. With that being said, you certainly don't need 100W for a laptop. In fact, I'm not even sure my Mac can cool itself appropriately with high CPU usage and 50W of power. Most people could get through a full day with a 15W charger. Laptop might be nearly dead at the end of the day, but 15W will fill it back up over night.
- brainbag 4y ago
  Anecdotal, but my M1 Max seems to drain battery very slowly with my daily development with all kinds of things running. Firefox, Brave, Slack, VSCode, Mail, docker containers, etc. It's pretty amazing how long they last. The other day I even accidentally left Factorio running because I got distracted getting my kid ready for school, and I hadn't noticed until a few hours later in a meeting when I heard the technology research sound. It was not plugged in the entire time, and I still had at least half the battery life.
fullstop 4y ago
I have one of these and it is fantastic: https://www.ravpower.com/products/rp-pc151-100w-2-usb-c-ports-pd-wall-charging-adapter https://www.ravpower.com/products/rp-pc151-100w-2-usb-c-port... When I got it it was closer to $50, though, and not $70.