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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 char
by 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 agoTry OrbStack. Should be much better on battery life.
- hotnfresh 3y agoThanks for the tip. On Colima now, will give that a try when I get a chance.
- lukeholder 3y agoI second this. Night and day.
- KingMob 3y agoOrbStack is awesome, but fair warning, its disk image does NOT play nice with backups.
- brandall10 3y agoIs 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 agoI 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.