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I've been a PC guy my whole live, and was forced onto a MacBook Pro this year for work.

The battery life is insane. The idea of charging my laptop has become this weird ritual now, only known of in lore and legend, that I partake of only when there is a blood moon.

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rplnt|5 months ago

Now if you look at the smart watches, they are by far the worst on the market.

ayaros|5 months ago

Meanwhile my 2019 i9 16" MacBook Pro gets battery life on par with the MacBook Wheel (as seen in this classic from The Onion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA) I kid you not, the hummingbird battery is real.

At least I have something to look forward to when I upgrade.

amluto|5 months ago

The battery life while in use is amazing. The battery life while closed and apparently asleep is abysmal and probably the worst of any laptop I’ve used in the last 20 years.

I think the problem is that Safari allows tabs to ask to be periodically woken while the laptop is asleep, and there is no obvious way to turn this off. And it will keep doing this until the battery is so low that the laptop needs to hibernate.

ksec|5 months ago

Safari on Desktop is just appalling, every year you wish there are some improvements and it is the same. webkit gets some update in terms of web features and bug fix. Safari itself doesn't seems to want to improve. Even Orion using same webkit engine is better.

mmh0000|5 months ago

See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897

TL;DR: Make sure Power Nap is turned ON. It allows macOS to consolidate wakeup requests into a bulk queue. So the thing isn't turning on all the time.

msie|5 months ago

Use Chrome. Problem solved.