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Badfish12

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Nov 2, 2023
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Can anyone with a 14” mbp with a fully maxed out M1/2 MAX Chip + fully maxed out RAM comment on battery life/fan noise?

Curious what the actual experience is for people with a fully souped up 14”. How bad is your battery life?

Do you deal with a lot of fan noise?

Issues even in a low/medium work load, or just high load?

Do you run it on low power mode on battery, and does that help much?
 

ksj1

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Jul 17, 2018
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Can't remember if you could get more than 32GB in the 14" M1 Max, which is what I have. Battery life is amazing (12+ hour days and plenty left). I don't remember ever hearing the fan at all.

I work as a developer, so bursts of compilation and unit tests running, etc.

I don't use low power mode and it operates just as fast on battery as it does plugged in.
 
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