Abysmal Battery Life

[tgwaste]

After 3 hours of using the Terminal app the battery dropped 33%. 9 hours is what I got on the old MacBook Air. Not seeing any battery benefits here at all.

 

[CheesePuff]

what does activity monitor energy tab show?

 

[tgwaste]

Wow, maybe Dropbox is the culprit?

 

[leman]

Well duh, if you have a process that eats up CPU power like this, three hours is actually amazing. An Intel Mac would be out of juice within two hours top I guess this is the problem with these M1 Macs — they run so quietly that you can't actually tell if an app went rogue...

 

[CheesePuff]

Dropbox is not a M1 native app yet.. but there must be another reason that its consuming so much CPU. But yes, that's the reason for your poor battery life

 

[tgwaste]

Dropbox is not a M1 native app yet.. but there must be another reason that its consuming so much CPU. But yes, that's the reason for your poor battery life

They have a build for it:

Beta Build 110.3.425

Thanks for using Dropbox! The desktop client is regularly updated with many improvements and fixes. Download Windows Standard Installer Offline Installer Mac OS X Standard Installer Offline Installer Linux x86_64 Offline Installer x86 OfflineInstaller Auto-updates: Everyone who chose...

www.dropboxforum.com

Probably using Rosetta though?

 

[CheesePuff]

They have a build for it:

Beta Build 110.3.425

Thanks for using Dropbox! The desktop client is regularly updated with many improvements and fixes. Download Windows Standard Installer Offline Installer Mac OS X Standard Installer Offline Installer Linux x86_64 Offline Installer x86 OfflineInstaller Auto-updates: Everyone who chose...

www.dropboxforum.com

Probably using Rosetta though?

actually in the comments they then reference using this beta build on Apple Silicon:

Dropbox desktop client builds

Download the latest Dropbox beta or stable build.

www.dropboxforum.com

 

[icymountain]

If you are doing a synchronization with many files to download or upload, it is likely that Dropbox will consume a lot (of CPU, energy) in the process of doing so.
I do not have any M1 machine, but I made a similar observation with iCloud itself.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Dropbox is and always has been a ridiculously bloated resource hog.

It and Chrome are always competing for "who uses too many resources for no good reason"

 

[glindon]

Dropbox is and always has been a ridiculously bloated resource hog.

It and Chrome are always competing for "who uses too many resources for no good reason"

I use Dropbox some but I never have it as a start up item because it’s always a battery hog. On M1 it’s even worse at the moment. I manually run it if I have any files to sync and then quit it once it’s done. I also don’t turn on the finder integration either.

 

[mike...]

Christ I didn't realise Dropbox is now an Electron app?! ffs

 

[LumbermanSVO]

Mountain Duck is a great app for replacing the Dropbox app, and many others.

 

[kp98077]

Wow, maybe Dropbox is the culprit?

View attachment 1673889

is yours 8 or 16 GB?

 

[badlydrawnboy]

If you've first installed Dropbox on a new machine it will eat up a lot of CPU as it syncs.

 

[arn]

I installed the beta Dropbox on my M1 MBP, but oddly it still lists as "Intel" in the activity monitor.

 

[CheesePuff]

I installed the beta Dropbox on my M1 MBP, but oddly it still lists as "Intel" in the activity monitor.

I believe they only mentioned it is 'compatible with Apple Silicon devices and MacOS Big Sur.' so may just be verified to work under Rosetta 2.

 

[arn]

Makes sense. There's also newer versions than the one linked above:

Beta Build:

Dropbox desktop client builds

Download the latest Dropbox beta or stable build.

www.dropboxforum.com

Stable Build:

Dropbox desktop client builds

Download the latest Dropbox beta or stable build.

www.dropboxforum.com

 

[christophermdia]

Started today at 8am .... was on a 5 hour zoom, ended with 75% ... played YouTube videos during the Zoom, and intermittent web sites throughout the day ... its 10pm now and im at 35% .... my 2016 MBP doesn't even come close!

 

[inc0gnito]

Unfortunately I can't share the excitement

Just running Safari and mail client with a few apps open gives me around 6-8 hours of screen time. I roughly lose a 1% every 4-5 minutes. It's really frustrating! I did format battery twice now and I see no improvements. Also computer is already week old so all of the indexing should be done by now...

Any advice? Or do you think I bought a lemon?!

Thanks

 

[leman]

Unfortunately I can't share the excitement

Just running Safari and mail client with a few apps open gives me around 6-8 hours of screen time. I roughly lose a 1% every 4-5 minutes. It's really frustrating! I did format battery twice now and I see no improvements. Also computer is already week old so all of the indexing should be done by now...

Any advice? Or do you think I bought a lemon?!

Thanks

What does Activity Monitor say? Check it for apps that consume high amounts of energy.

 

[LFC2020]

Unfortunately I can't share the excitement

Just running Safari and mail client with a few apps open gives me around 6-8 hours of screen time. I roughly lose a 1% every 4-5 minutes. It's really frustrating! I did format battery twice now and I see no improvements. Also computer is already week old so all of the indexing should be done by now...

Any advice? Or do you think I bought a lemon?!

Thanks

Something doesn't seem right with your machine, I've been smashing safari for 5 days, currently at 51% just under 6 hours usage. Base model M1 MacBook Pro here.

If you can't fix it via a restore, return it for a new machine.

 

[1240766]

MBP here, I am going into day 3 now without a charge, at 73% - Safari, YouTube here and there, a little bit of coding...amazing battery life!