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I appreciate this comment! I'm often envious of these Macbook announcements, as the battery life on my XPS is poor (~2ish hours) when running Ubuntu. (No idea
by martypitt 1y ago
I appreciate this comment!
I'm often envious of these Macbook announcements, as the battery life on my XPS is poor (~2ish hours) when running Ubuntu. (No idea if it's also bad on Windows - as I haven't run it in years).
Thanks for the heads-up.
- coldtea 1y agoNot that useful as a heads up. MacOS is great for development. Tons of high profile devs, from Python and ML, to JS, Java, Go, Rust and more use it - the very people who headline major projects for those languages. 2ish hours battery life is crazy. It's 8+ hours with the average Macbook.
- theodric 1y ago> It's 8+ hours with the average Macbook. Did I get a dud? I rarely get over 2.5
- leakycap 1y agoIf you are on a M-series MacBook and aren't running a 3D Benchmark the entire time, your Mac is broken if it is dying after 2.5 hours. Have you checked your Battery Health? If you have an intel-based Mac, it's the same expected battery life as Windows and 2.5 hours on an intel MacBook battery sounds decent for something 5+ years old.
- brokencode 1y agoWith Apple Silicon? Yes, that is very low for typical dev usage. Gaming is another story though, or any other uses that put a lot of stress the GPU.
- avtar 1y ago8+ hours sounds about right. I have a M1 Macbook Pro and even 5 years later I can still use it (a million browser tabs, couple containers, messaging apps) for an entire day without having to charge it.
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- tverbeure 1y agoYeah, you have a dud. Or you have some processing running in the background that's gobbling up all the energy.