It’s early. I’d be surprised if Apple stayed with “Magic Battery”. I imagine it could be “VP Battery” or something less sensational. 🤞🏻
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Apple 'Magic Battery' Will Power Vision Pro Headset
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Looks like Apple Vision Pro will be able to run my favorite Windows XP. I wonder how much magical battery will be used?
Watch it in action 0:35. 👇
Watch it in action 0:35. 👇
So can you charge the battery pack while it's plugged into the headset or do you have to power down the device and swap battery packs/move to a wall adapter to continue using it? Surely the battery has pass-through power but I haven't seen it mentioned or a port shown on the bottom of the battery pack.
Are people confused "Mag" in MagBatt as Magic? I always thought it means Magnetic?
Because it’s an ordinary run of the mill 2-hr battery. Nothing special. Apple putting lipstick on a pig and calling it magic doesn’t make it magical.
Yeah, but, but your head and neck will be tired otherwise and you’ll need a break from wearing this all mighty life saving device! (Apple sycophant apologists already making excuses.)
I imagine I’ll have a place in the house, either in bed or a recliner where I have the Vision Pro plugged in all the time. That way the battery’s charged if I want a bathroom break or a beverage in the middle of a 3 hour movie I can keep watching, but move around when I want, then plug back into my usual spot… 👍🏻
Wait, you gotta clip on or slip a power brick into your pocket with a long cord when you walk around like a weirdo with your Vision Pro and that battery only lasts two hours and that's magical? Apple is going full old Apple with this crap. Stamp out the people in the company that are still doing this to us! Put whoever was in charge of the new MacBook Pro and Mac Studio in charge. We need more function with this form.
“Train wreck” and “lipstick on a pig”, so what exactly is the problem with the battery? How would you fix whatever you think is wrong with the battery? It’s obvious that your issue with the battery is not limited to the rumoured name. I mean, you are calling a fancy marketing name for the battery “lipstick on a pig”, what makes the battery in to a “pig”?
You'll need a magic wallet from the magic money tree to pay for it
If you put the battery on the headset itself, it will make the headset heavier and bulkier. That is a fact. So it makes sense to put it elsewhere.
And I bet that Apple would just love for the headset to have longer battery life. But like I said elsewhere, there are a bunch of tradeoffs Apple had to make when specking the thing. They wanted a certain level of performance (with the screens, sensors and the processor) and that takes certain amount of power. They also needed certain level of size and weight. And they had to reach certain battery life. You can’t maximize those all, you need to pick and choose, and you can only choose two.
They could give it 4-hour battery-life (or 6, or 12), sure. But that would mean making the battery bigger. Then you would be whining about the battery being a “disaster” because it’s too big and heavy. Or maybe they could skimp on the screens and performance? Then you would be whining because you can’t do much with the device and using it is frustrating.
They obviously thought that 2 hours is good enough for now, while keeping the battery small enough. In the future when they have more efficient processors and screens the battery life will go up.
i agree they did their best. and the best they could do resulted in something bad.
Maybe they're calling it a magic battery because you can plug it into other stuff, like your laptop. It would be handy if it could recharge your phone and iPad as well
So, how would you fix it? Reduce power-draw by making the device slower and/or have worse screens? Make the battery physically bigger and heavier? You do realize all these things are about tradeoffs? Or do you expect Apple to have actual magic that lets them break the laws of physics?
i agree with you. they did their best and their best is very very bad. and useless. and absurdly expensive.
2 hour battery life is “very very bad” and “useless”? Hyperbole much?
You still didn’t answer my question. How would you fix it? Come on, let’s hear it.
yes. that’s very very bad and useless. like… be real lol.
and you’re not listening to me. i’m agreeing, there is no fix, and this product is terrible.
Just to be clear: you do realise that... you can plug the thing in? You are not using the device when walking around town (like you do with a phone). In the release video, they are using it in the office, where it can be plugged in. It's being used in the living room, where it can be plugged in. Everywhere it's being used, it's used in a place and in a way where it can be plugged in just fine.
It sounds like there are tons of people who are thinking that it can only be used while on battery power, which is not the case. You are thinking like the battery life is going to ruin the device, when I bet that it will mostly be used while plugged in to power outlet, with battery just being a bonus and a backup.
What next, Mac Studio is a terrible product because it has 0 hours of battery life?
funny to see people calling a product terrible when they have not even seen it in action. All the people that have tried it say it's a breakthrough in tech which it is. It's not going to be for everybody that's for sure but it will certainly have a use case. This is the first early stage of what will potentially replace alot of people's devices. This tech is very early in what it can do. it's not a product for the public really yet but what it could become is very exciting.
It’s just an ordinary battery. Nothing wrong with it other than it getting only 2-hrs of use time between charges (if proven to be accurate). That’s crap IMO for an Apple product—especially one that’s supposed to be “magical”. This is not complicated rationale.