[DDayMace]

SoCs, ARM especially, are the future I don't doubt. I am thankful Apple is pushing the industry to advance. But :-) until these kind of battery advancements trickle down to Linux and Windows, I really don't care to be in Apple Prison(TM) as a trade-off.

Also, Apple has a long and storied history of specification marketing hyperbole, so I am extremely skeptical these chips will get 'real-world' 2x battery life.

I will keep building my cased x86 behemoths and refurbished Thinkpads as long as there is stock available :-) Hmm, where did that rotary phone go...

[jki275]

It's amazingly true. And it's not 2x, it's 3-5x depending on workload.

I've got an i9 MBP, and I've been using an M1 MBP for the last year for work. The M1 I don't even need to plug in, I can work with it for 2-3 days on a single charge, the i9 I essentially run plugged in all the time.

Also the fans never even start on the M1. They run a LOT on the i9 and it throttles and gets very hot often due to my workloads.

Apple may have a history, as you say, and I wish they'd publish more quantitative metrics -- but this thing really works. It's life changing.

[esskay]

The 'real world' battery genuinely is at least 2x (most of the time WAY more)...thats not marketing hyperbole, its real-world people doing real-world jobs telling you.

[vehemenz]

What is your take on the "Apple prison" metaphor? I hear this a lot, but I can install whatever I want on my Mac and have zero issues doing what I need to.

It's true that iOS is a walled garden. I suppose if you have serious work to do on a smartphone without a keyboard, then the limitations could feel like a prison. I question how many people need to do this and wouldn't have a laptop handy, but that's just me.

[friedman23]

But this isn't marketing, it's a review with battery life benchmarks with a variety of scenarios...