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That's already true of the M1 Max. At maximum power from CPU+GPU it will barely last an hour. Edit: I wrote Ultra, but I meant Max.
by sudosysgen 3y ago
That's already true of the M1 Max. At maximum power from CPU+GPU it will barely last an hour.
Edit: I wrote Ultra, but I meant Max.
- throwaway290 3y ago> M1 Ultra Do they put M1 Ultra in laptops tho?
- sudosysgen 3y agoYes. The MBP with an M1 Max will, at max performance, use enough power that it would discharge it's battery in less than an hour. I think Apple throttles it on battery, though.
- pram 3y agoThe MBP with an M1 Ultra isn't a thing that exists.
- sudosysgen 3y agoYou're right, I miswrote, it's the M1 Max. See https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performance-review/3 https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc... - the M1 Max can draw over 100W.
- Hamuko 3y agoNo. There does not exist an M1 Ultra laptop of any kind. Nor an M2 Ultra laptop for that matter. The only machines with Mn Ultra are the Mac Studio and Mac Pro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1#Products_that_use_the_Apple_M1_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1#Products_that_use_the...
- mrtranscendence 3y agoThat may be true, but in practice I get faaar better battery life out of my M1 Max than I would out of a laptop with a mobile 4090.
- sudosysgen 3y agoDo you do AAA gaming on your M1 Max? If not, then the GPU is irrelevant, because a laptop with a 4090 mobile is going to shut it down completely. If you are indeed doing AAA gaming, then you wouldn't have sufficient battery life without plugging in, or you wouldn't have sufficient performance.
- mrtranscendence 3y agoI'm not talking about AAA gaming here. I'm talking about day-to-day work-related tasks, which is primarily what I use my MacBook for.
- sudosysgen 3y agoYes, which is why I said that if you don't, the 4090 is irrelevant because it's just turned off.
- throwaway290 3y agoPeople report playing Baldur's Gate 3 for an hour on M1 Max with 40% battery life left, is it AAA enough? https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/qogsov/battery_life_comparison_between_m1_pro_and_m1_max/ https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/qogsov/battery_... (M1 Pro lasts longer)
- sudosysgen 3y agoGiven that Baldur's Gate runs at Ultra 1080p60+ on a 3050Ti mobile, that's about what you can expect from a low end gaming laptop - and that GPU runs at 35-50W on most of those
- throwaway290 3y agoIf power consumption is about the same as M1 Max while running the same game at the same settings the only difference becomes battery life...