Which Apple Silicon MacBook will ultimately have the best battery life?

[justinf77]

Excluding the Air from this poll since we already know that the M1 MBP beats the Air.

 

[andrewstirling]

So out of a choice of two you’ve already excluded one? :-D

 

[jerryk]

When you are pushing close to 20 hours does it matter if you get 18 or 22 hours? Also, without knowing workload it is impossible to accurately predict. Training of ML models will eat the battery a lot quicker than browsing reading a online article.

 

[justinf77]

So out of a choice of two you’ve already excluded one? :-D

Well one of them has already lost haha. I'm curious how the upgraded chips in the 14" and 16" Pros will perform in terms of battery life, i.e. will the higher power chips still be able to sip power at the same low rate when doing light tasks such as web browsing and video watching. Just thought it would be fun to get people's guesses on how that will eventually play out.

 

[Gnattu]

I think you have to define a workload for battery life.
If it's just light workload like web surfing, the MBP16 will almost certainly got the best battery life

 

[acousticbiker]

Screen brightness may be an even more important factor