M2 pro MBP 14'' battery life

[Ribopaido]

Hello everyone,

I have a 14inch M2pro MBP and I notice the following battery life usage. Went from 94% to 45% with 6 hours of using it.Any opinions? Laptop is brand new, I have it for just one week with 3 charges so far. Should I wait more to have a stronger view?
Thanx in advance!

 

[Ynk]

What is your question? 50% battery usage for 6hrs of screen on time is excellent.

 

[halledise]

Hello everyone,

I have a 14inch M2pro MBP and I notice the following battery life usage. Went from 94% to 45% with 6 hours of using it.Any opinions? Laptop is brand new, I have it for just one week with 3 charges so far. Should I wait more to have a stronger view?
Thanx in advance!

View attachment 2217410

it all depends on what level of brightness you have display settings set at.
if 100% then you'll get much less than Apple advertise.
as per Ynk's comment, 6 hours for 50% is pretty darn good

 

[brerlappin]

It also depends on what apps you're running. For example, Adobe apps will drain the battery faster than just browsing in Safari.

 

[lJoSquaredl]

It's better than the M1 from what I hear, but if you wanna stretch it I'd turn down brightness, use low power mode, maybe turn of XDR, there's little ways to get more out of it when on battery. 6 hours seems pretty good tho, I've always heard the 14" has the worst battery of all the MacBooks but 6 is still respectable especially depending on the tasks. Sara Dietschy said she got about 6h50m while doing things like Notion, movies, some video editing, etc. Better than the 3-5 hours the M1 version was used to getting anyways.

Hopefully you weren't doing the test while spotlight was running too, I've heard that's a drain altho not sure how it works these days with the ARM chips and SSDs maybe it's much faster.

 

[SO8]

FWIW I have just got a 14 inch M2 and it is hugely better than the HP Spectre 360 I tried ... and about the same as my M1 MBP ... it does very much depend what you are doing but go to a Windows machine and you would be lucky to get 3 hours for that ! I know I had one and sent it back !! I thought they had sorted their issues but they haven't and Mac's are waaaay ahead !