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> My new M1 did maybe 5 hours on the battery > My M1 Air lasts 12+ hours and M1 Pro lasts 10+ hours Neither of you have said anything about how you spend your

> My new M1 did maybe 5 hours on the battery > My M1 Air lasts 12+ hours and M1 Pro lasts 10+ hours Neither of you have said anything about how you spend your time on the laptop itself, which makes both numbers equally useless. Of course someone who spends their time compiling Rust projects and writing code will have less battery time than someone who writes emails and reads HN most of the day. But we have no way of knowing if this is what's happening. But my guess is that your usage patterns are different.

r00fus 3y ago
And then you have to add work spyware/etc. That significantly kills my battery.
lelanthran 3y ago
My M1 was used for Google video meetings and development, with some firefox thrown in occasionally. Don't get me wrong - 5 hours is still better than any other laptop I've used, I'm just constantly surprised by people who claim that any competing laptop has to last 8 hours or more. Yesterday, in response to one of my comments, someone claimed to get regular and consistent 16 hours from their M1. I really cannot see how that's possible unless they only use it for google searches or reading social media.
- kolinko 3y ago
  That's impossible. There are multiple accounts and tests that show you should be getting >10h with just video meetings.
  - lelanthran 3y ago
    > That's impossible. I dunno about those tests[1] showing 10h of video meetings, but it's certainly not impossible. At least one other person in this thread reports the same. Besides, that means that the best case scenario for video only is 10h; I specifically said that I have an IDE running too. [1] A test using the hardware codecs would certainly do well. I don't have control over what google meets supplies in the way of codecs.
enraged_camel 3y ago
>> Neither of you have said anything about how you spend your time on the laptop itself, which makes both numbers equally useless. I'm mostly doing web dev in VS Code and Chrome, with a language server plugin doing background work. One difference with the M1 Pro is that I have the Slack app installed on it, and it's always shown in the "using significant battery" list.

r00fus 3y ago

And then you have to add work spyware/etc. That significantly kills my battery.

lelanthran 3y ago

My M1 was used for Google video meetings and development, with some firefox thrown in occasionally. Don't get me wrong - 5 hours is still better than any other laptop I've used, I'm just constantly surprised by people who claim that any competing laptop has to last 8 hours or more. Yesterday, in response to one of my comments, someone claimed to get regular and consistent 16 hours from their M1. I really cannot see how that's possible unless they only use it for google searches or reading social media.

kolinko 3y ago
That's impossible. There are multiple accounts and tests that show you should be getting >10h with just video meetings.
- lelanthran 3y ago
  > That's impossible. I dunno about those tests[1] showing 10h of video meetings, but it's certainly not impossible. At least one other person in this thread reports the same. Besides, that means that the best case scenario for video only is 10h; I specifically said that I have an IDE running too. [1] A test using the hardware codecs would certainly do well. I don't have control over what google meets supplies in the way of codecs.

enraged_camel 3y ago

>> Neither of you have said anything about how you spend your time on the laptop itself, which makes both numbers equally useless. I'm mostly doing web dev in VS Code and Chrome, with a language server plugin doing background work. One difference with the M1 Pro is that I have the Slack app installed on it, and it's always shown in the "using significant battery" list.