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If you use an Apple Silicon Mac you won't be asking that last question. Being able to reasonably go days without charging with regular usage is quite nice and o

by jdiff 3y ago

If you use an Apple Silicon Mac you won't be asking that last question. Being able to reasonably go days without charging with regular usage is quite nice and opens this laptop up to new ways of being used. There's no other device in my inventory that I just don't have to worry about battery with. My use case doesn't often pin cores these days, but I imagine the same goes for the full CPU load question. It's not common, because it's not possible. Enabling that enables new ways of using it. And outside of traditional computer use, those questions are both easily answered if you consider handheld PC gaming devices. People post excitedly about their strategies and successes when they squeeze out an extra hour of game time on both the high and low ends.

treprinum 3y ago
My 14" M3 Max 128GB devours the battery in less than 1.5h when inferencing LLaMA 2 70B and is noisy as a SpaceX rocket... The same with my Zephyrus G14 7840U 4090 64+16GB.
hbn 3y ago
I went into the office yesterday and forgot my power brick at home. I just got a new MacBook Pro with M2 Max so I figured I'd see how long I could go on battery before needing to borrow someone's charger. I started the day at 7:30, worked most of the day on it with multiple apps open - Chrome, Safari, Teams, Slack, VS Code, IntelliJ, DataGrip, Postman, Outlook, etc. Connected to a wireless keyboard and mouse, and streaming music to my AirPods for a few hours of the day. Most of my actively used apps were IntelliJ, Chrome, and Teams (admittedly not doing a LOT of building/running Java cause I was resolving build issues for a chunk of the day). I ended the day at 4:00 with 47% battery remaining. That was unheard of on my last i9 MBP that could barely survive a few hours on battery, even when it was new.
grumpyprole 3y ago
> Being able to reasonably go days without charging with regular usage is quite nice No it's much worse than that for us Intel laptop users. Our machines make loud noises, overheat and throttle to the point where it affects Zoom video chats. The fan on my X1 carbon even comes on when booting the machine!

by jdiff 3y ago

treprinum 3y ago

My 14" M3 Max 128GB devours the battery in less than 1.5h when inferencing LLaMA 2 70B and is noisy as a SpaceX rocket... The same with my Zephyrus G14 7840U 4090 64+16GB.

hbn 3y ago

I went into the office yesterday and forgot my power brick at home. I just got a new MacBook Pro with M2 Max so I figured I'd see how long I could go on battery before needing to borrow someone's charger. I started the day at 7:30, worked most of the day on it with multiple apps open - Chrome, Safari, Teams, Slack, VS Code, IntelliJ, DataGrip, Postman, Outlook, etc. Connected to a wireless keyboard and mouse, and streaming music to my AirPods for a few hours of the day. Most of my actively used apps were IntelliJ, Chrome, and Teams (admittedly not doing a LOT of building/running Java cause I was resolving build issues for a chunk of the day). I ended the day at 4:00 with 47% battery remaining. That was unheard of on my last i9 MBP that could barely survive a few hours on battery, even when it was new.

grumpyprole 3y ago

> Being able to reasonably go days without charging with regular usage is quite nice No it's much worse than that for us Intel laptop users. Our machines make loud noises, overheat and throttle to the point where it affects Zoom video chats. The fan on my X1 carbon even comes on when booting the machine!