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Anecdotally, I've been able to use my M2 Max MacBook Pro for 12 hours straight with 50% battery at the end of the day. Nothing intensive, just Chrome, Emacs, Sp

Anecdotally, I've been able to use my M2 Max MacBook Pro for 12 hours straight with 50% battery at the end of the day. Nothing intensive, just Chrome, Emacs, Spotify, Slack, Discord, etc.

powershot275 3y ago
Nothing intensive, just Chrome, Emacs, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, etc.
- hbn 3y ago
  Google Chrome Helper (Renderer), Google Chrome Helper (Renderer), Google Chrome Helper, Google Chrome Helper (GPU), Google Chrome Helper (Renderer)...
- whynotminot 3y ago
  Lol spot on. It's actually a bigger flex than you might think to be getting that much battery life with all that Chrome running.
hotnfresh 3y ago
My M1 Pro can do damn near two workdays on one charge as long as I'm not doing shit in Docker. The Lenovo Thinkpad I was also issued loses like 40% of its charge overnight, while "sleeping"....
- yanokwa 3y ago
  Try OrbStack. Should be much better on battery life.
  - hotnfresh 3y ago
    Thanks for the tip. On Colima now, will give that a try when I get a chance.
  - lukeholder 3y ago
    I second this. Night and day.
  - KingMob 3y ago
    OrbStack is awesome, but fair warning, its disk image does NOT play nice with backups.
- brandall10 3y ago
  Is this on very low brightness? My 14" M1 Pro rarely got more than 7 hours and my former work 16" M1 Pro more than 9 on a React workflow. When introducing VM work or anything fairly heavy to the mix take 2 hours off each. Typically at 50-60% brightness, have iStat showing load so I can catch any errant processes. My biggest issue with this release is no published improvements in battery life. 22 hrs is for movie watching. Wireless web - of course very low load - is still 15 for the 16" and 12 for the 14", same as M2 Pro which is each just 1 hour more than the M1 Pro.
  - hotnfresh 3y ago
    I almost never touch the brightness. It does what it wants. Not sure. Looks like it's at about 1/3 right now, but it'd be brighter if it weren't kinda cloudy here, I bet. Program choices matter a lot. I gained about 30% battery life switching from Chrome to Safari, years back. I do have Teams and MS Outlook running all the time on that machine though, and they're not exactly slim.

Anecdotally, I've been able to use my M2 Max MacBook Pro for 12 hours straight with 50% battery at the end of the day. Nothing intensive, just Chrome, Emacs, Spotify, Slack, Discord, etc.

powershot275 3y ago

Nothing intensive, just Chrome, Emacs, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, etc.

hbn 3y ago
Google Chrome Helper (Renderer), Google Chrome Helper (Renderer), Google Chrome Helper, Google Chrome Helper (GPU), Google Chrome Helper (Renderer)...
whynotminot 3y ago
Lol spot on. It's actually a bigger flex than you might think to be getting that much battery life with all that Chrome running.

hotnfresh 3y ago

My M1 Pro can do damn near two workdays on one charge as long as I'm not doing shit in Docker. The Lenovo Thinkpad I was also issued loses like 40% of its charge overnight, while "sleeping"....

yanokwa 3y ago
Try OrbStack. Should be much better on battery life.
- hotnfresh 3y ago
  Thanks for the tip. On Colima now, will give that a try when I get a chance.
- lukeholder 3y ago
  I second this. Night and day.
- KingMob 3y ago
  OrbStack is awesome, but fair warning, its disk image does NOT play nice with backups.
brandall10 3y ago
Is this on very low brightness? My 14" M1 Pro rarely got more than 7 hours and my former work 16" M1 Pro more than 9 on a React workflow. When introducing VM work or anything fairly heavy to the mix take 2 hours off each. Typically at 50-60% brightness, have iStat showing load so I can catch any errant processes. My biggest issue with this release is no published improvements in battery life. 22 hrs is for movie watching. Wireless web - of course very low load - is still 15 for the 16" and 12 for the 14", same as M2 Pro which is each just 1 hour more than the M1 Pro.
- hotnfresh 3y ago
  I almost never touch the brightness. It does what it wants. Not sure. Looks like it's at about 1/3 right now, but it'd be brighter if it weren't kinda cloudy here, I bet. Program choices matter a lot. I gained about 30% battery life switching from Chrome to Safari, years back. I do have Teams and MS Outlook running all the time on that machine though, and they're not exactly slim.