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MBP 13 M1 disappointing battery life
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Your brightness is way up there. Do you use dark mode? If not, consider doing so as you shouldn't need to keep the brightness level that high in dark mode.
You know how California people can be..shining the spotlight towards you.
. Miss Bea, if you want to be hardcore Mac, you should get a countdown app that works on the watch and phone, so that you can countdown the days until the 14" is released.
I haven't charged my MBA since Jan 1 and it's currently at 29%. And I do use it daily and only put it to sleep, not full shutdown almost ever. I don't use it all day every day because I also have a work Mac, but still, for my personal computing, I'm averaging a charge every 2 weeks or so unless I'm working in Affinity or doing a lot of gaming or something.
Aaaaaah thank you... I've read that it makes no difference on normal LCDs so I kept it in light mode but I never thought about what you said. I'm using dark mode now.
OP stated that his problems came from AV software, not Chrome.
I am running M1 Chrome version on my both MBA and MBP - however with removed Keystone and GoogleUpdate services from the package and it runs great on my MBA and MBP without any additional battery impact.
Ex-Windows users (where I belong) know that Chrome can be a hog, mostly by running services in the background - but it can be tweaked not to be.
On Mac - that proces is even easier than on Windows.
I am running M1 Chrome version on my both MBA and MBP - however with removed Keystone and GoogleUpdate services from the package and it runs great on my MBA and MBP without any additional battery impact.
Ex-Windows users (where I belong) know that Chrome can be a hog, mostly by running services in the background - but it can be tweaked not to be.
On Mac - that proces is even easier than on Windows.
One more vote for IINA.Good that you got rid of all that. Run it lean and mean, your battery life will be good.
Also suggest replace VLC with IINA.
You can even find the M1 version on Github
Ughh... Newer know about IINA player. Just tested - exelent, fast. ?Good that you got rid of all that. Run it lean and mean, your battery life will be good.
Also suggest replace VLC with IINA.
Wish they had stereo audio for MXF video files. Sad that VLC also didn't have stereo playback of MXF video files. We use MXF for video broadcast. lightweight and exelent video quality.
Another vote for IINA. Excellent UI and far better than VLC.Good that you got rid of all that. Run it lean and mean, your battery life will be good.
Also suggest replace VLC with IINA.
Wow you got a very very special battery on yours
Not really - my MBP hasn't been charged since last Tuesday night, and I'm only down to 47% battery remaining. As far as antivirus is concerned, if I was required to run one for work purposes on this Mac, I'd go with Webroot. Unlike most AV programs, Webroot is a very low-impact program in terms of CPU utilization, system utilization, or battery life. It is the preferred program we run on computers at work because of how lightweight it is.
I used my MacBook Pro M1 on battery from last Saturday around 9am , watched a fair few YouTube video's , lots of surfing the net, internet banking, social media until about 11pm at night before calling it a day, the following morning pretty much the same started using it around 9am to 10pm and it was down to about 55% before I plugged it into charge.
Also it didn't seem to drop even 1% over night which is crazy.
Using safari with no extensions, nextdns for adblocking via router, no chrome or any unnecessary apps running in the background and definitely no antivirus software (common sense prevails lol)
I was very concerned that my laptop had 14 cycles when I got it (now 20) but too be honest if I can easily hit 2 days or more from it then to me it's a non-issue.
Also it didn't seem to drop even 1% over night which is crazy.
Using safari with no extensions, nextdns for adblocking via router, no chrome or any unnecessary apps running in the background and definitely no antivirus software (common sense prevails lol)
I was very concerned that my laptop had 14 cycles when I got it (now 20) but too be honest if I can easily hit 2 days or more from it then to me it's a non-issue.
Unfortunately for some of us Chrome is required for work (plugins etc). I haven't conducted a scientific test but it eats battery despite running the ARM variant. Nothing else burns power as much (I guess unless you were constantly exporting video or something).
Why people use Chrome didn't get what is so special about it? It is resource hungry and not the best web browser in any way. As alternative i use Brave Browser - it is really secure with built in really advanced add blocker, works fast. But main browser in my case are Safary. Try Brave - it is fantastic! And without these google junks like chrome.
It is my understanding, that you can get the Silicon version from Github.
GitHub - iina/iina: The modern video player for macOS.
The modern video player for macOS. Contribute to iina/iina development by creating an account on GitHub.
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