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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

if you turn on power saving mode when you’re doing light tasks the laptop runs forever at 50% brightness.

I find myself doing that like twice a month so it’s not a concern at all, battery life is phenomenal for the power these machines have while producing minimal heat and being completely silent.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    The battery life is amazing with lightweight workloads. Unfortunately when doing anything more it becomes fairly mediocre. With my normal dev work it lasts about 2-3 hours at best.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah, Apple's secret sauce isn't necessarily perf/watt in an all-core load (although they're obviously near the top there as well) but in idle power consumption. I'm guessing that M3 does better here, but I remember seeing a Phoronix test/review that showed that when capped at 15 W, the latest Ryzen laptop CPU beats the M2 in all-core workloads, although the M2 gets better battery life in "normal" workloads.

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