That demonstrates the variabiltiy of Apple "Geniuses" more than anything. It's certainly NOT normal. I'd think serioiusly about talking to a manager with a response like that. Nevertheless, Ventura battery life does seem worse for many.
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How's the performance and Battery life on MacOS 13 Ventura?
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Hi. Does anyone have any issues with the external display after updating to OS Ventura 13.01? I regretted my decision to upgrade today.
After updating, my main display on the laptop always turns black whenever I access the fully open window on the external display. I dunno what's wrong. For someone who needs to work with an external display to have a dual screen, this is a terrible issue.
UPDATE: Case Closed. Turns out the Display Have Separate Spaces was automatically turned off after the update. Turned it back on then all is good now.
After updating, my main display on the laptop always turns black whenever I access the fully open window on the external display. I dunno what's wrong. For someone who needs to work with an external display to have a dual screen, this is a terrible issue.
UPDATE: Case Closed. Turns out the Display Have Separate Spaces was automatically turned off after the update. Turned it back on then all is good now.
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I yesterday updated to MacOS Ventura 13.1 and now the WindowServer process does not consume 2,36 GB but only 1,07 GB, this is a big improvement. In the meantime under 13.0.1 I had this process consume up to 3GB, that was much too high!
I do not know if 1 GB is good but it consumes much less memory than before, so I would call it a win
Greetings, Janni
I've been waiting to upgrade my MBP 14 M1 Pro until the the battery issues were resolved. What have experiences been on 13.1 official release?
Installed 13.1 the day after release. On MBP M1 13" i don't have any outrageous battery drain like I had a month ago. Watching pmset -g pslog it looks like the Mac is draining slightly faster than I'd expect when in normal use (I have a lot of apps open, but they aren't very active ones).
2017 12" MacBook (i5, 16GB, 512GB) here. Performance is normal, battery life is horrible. I went from getting over 10 hours of moderate use on this thing (battery is at 80% health, too!) to roughly 4 hours on Ventura, if I'm lucky. Other than that, it's fine. But the new features aren't worth the battery life to me, so I went back down to Big Sur after a couple months.
Battery life is really bad. My MBP drained 15% sleeping for 10 hours. That is slightly more than 1% per hour. I get an estimate of ~3:30 hours of use on 100% charge on a battery that is 1 year old with 200 cycles. On Catalina I was getting 6-8 hours with fairly heavy use and had minimal battery drain on sleep even for days. The Ventura UI is also kind of sluggish for some reason. There's still a lot of weird bugs in Ventura.
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My M1 Max 16" battery drains much faster after moving to Ventura. I got really excited when I read your solution disabling stage manager. When I went to settings I found it was not enabled. So in my case there must be a different cause of excessive battery drain.
Although I haven't tested, I think in sleep mode (lid down) the battery drains slower when I disable WiFi and/or unplug any network adapters.