My shiny new 16-inch Apple Silicon MacBook Pro claims two big advantages over its Intel predecessor. First, the performance of the M1 Max. Second, power efficiency, aka battery life.
For my personal usage patterns, the two are quite distinct. The time when I want power is for video editing, when I’ll almost always be sat at my desk hooked up to a large monitor. When I want battery life, my typical usage is very different…
Away from my desk, I’m not generally carrying out demanding tasks. It tends to be mostly writing, with some photo editing – plus the usual web browsing, email, and so on. If I do any video editing, it’ll only be a brief clip montage for social media.
Yet despite the ease of these tasks, my Intel MacBook Pro gave only five to six hours of use. It was more toward the five-hour mark when using the machine normally, and getting closer to six hours if I quit apps not in active use, and took the brightness down a notch from my preferred level.
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