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That 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.
by mrtranscendence 3y ago
That 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...
- sudosysgen 3y agoIf the power consumption is the same and the battery capacity is the same size then the battery life is the same. It's a simple division.
- throwaway290 3y agoUnless one OS consumes power more efficiently then another, sure...