M1 Max 14-inch MacBook Pro Battery Performance | Low Power Mode
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- The M1 Max 14-Inch MacBook Pro battery performance in low power mode may help in certain workflows, but are you really going to get all day usage out of this MacBook Pro?
The take home message here with this 14-inch MacBook Pro review is that it depends on your work environment (the actual environment), what you're working on, are you taking break in between, are you using other peripherals, and are those efficiency cores able to keep up?
Full Disclaimer: These were very light days of use when considering my typical creative days. You might get half of what I got, which is why I made that recommendation in the video.
The Drives I’m Testing:
Fledging TB3 Enclosure: geni.us/flJqziY (Amazon)
Acasis: geni.us/1vu6Jqc (Amazon)
WD SSD (gen 3 option): geni.us/N2FAzD (Amazon)
SanDisk Extreme (T00-G25): geni.us/n0B9Q (Amazon)
14-inch M1 Pro MacBook Pro (Amazon): geni.us/7HlAh (Amazon)
M1 Macbook Air: geni.us/aB6N (Amazon)
M1 Mac Mini: geni.us/pDK2b (Amazon)
Anker Mini Dock: geni.us/ACcOo (Amazon)
Thunderbolt 3 Dock: geni.us/ATbaAjc (Amazon)
MX Master 3: geni.us/pfEgz (Amazon)
MX Keys: geni.us/4wiTh (Amazon)
Ultrawide Monitor: geni.us/un9I (Amazon)
Monitor Arm: geni.us/7j1xeS (Amazon)
Audio Gear:
Overhead Microphone: bit.ly/DeityS2SMic
Overhead Mic on Amazon: geni.us/s1A9eNK (Amazon)
Broadcast Microphone (Q9U): geni.us/QkBCC (Amazon)
Handheld Recorder: geni.us/MTyrz (Amazon)
MOTU Interface: geni.us/NMoYwcJ (Amazon)
ATR Dynamic Microphone: geni.us/0V4K0Rk (Amazon)
Samson Dynamic Microphone Choice: geni.us/fVng5fM (Amazon)
Studio Headphones (250 Ohms): geni.us/BuzD (Amazon)
Yamaha Monitors (single): geni.us/MbemtUC (Amazon)
Studio Monitor Stands: geni.us/MiBAiE6 (Amazon)
What I use to Film:
My Primary Camera: geni.us/gQQxjr3 (Amazon)
Prime Lens 16mm: geni.us/BlBd9 (Amazon)
Sony 18-105: geni.us/Jb3O0 (Amazon)
SanDisk Extreme: geni.us/9MHZlT (Amazon)
Manfrotto Tripod (for vlogging): geni.us/0SYQD (Amazon)
Light Dome: geni.us/TzffFw (Amazon)
Key Light: geni.us/n2kAe (Amazon)
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What we're Testing: 00:00
Disclaimer: 00:15
Context: 00:55
Low Power Mode Use: 02:29
Low Power Mode Results: 04:30
What I recommend: 05:28 - Наука та технологія
Yes! It's about time people do low power mode tests!
Happy to help. I’ll do more as I have more time with it.
Great video, keep them coming.
Many thanks friend.
Always look forward to your posts. Another interesting one! :-)
And I appreciate having you around. Many thanks 🤙
Very helpful video, in my documentary production class they talked about running on externals, but all there methods of file organization and reasoning behind running externals were way over our heads. Left star dazed I found your video and kind of regretted going to my tech for video pro work. Your tutorials help immensely and are a lot more clear to understand and concise in my mind.
Well, sometimes the path is bumpy along the journey, but glad you found the community here. Happy to help, and I appreciate you spending time here.
Alright you beautiful humans. Is this information a little confusing? Maybe. But it’s what I’ve found. The take home message is that if you’re using this for heavy workloads, budget for just a few hours if we’re really being realistic.
This beautiful human is going to drop a cheat code to get better battery life on another video I can feel it in my soul 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I’m working on it, but Timmy keeps shutting me down 😉
Hello, I have a question because I do not know if it is worth buying the 14-inch macbook pro with m1 max? For portability, performance, although my question comes in the battery, is it very bad? taking into account that I am going to choose the m1 max for video editing especially
If someone can help me, I would be grateful
Great practical review Kevin. Many thanks
Will upgrade to M1 Max 24c GPU: 2 media engines & sweet spot.
16’’ for screen & battery; 32GB for my multitasking; 4TB for fastest & internal SSD. Greetings 🇨🇭
Thanks friend. I’ll be curious to hear what you think of that setup when you get it all dialed into your workflow. Sending my best to you.
I am on a 14" M1 Max w/ 24c gpu, 32gb ram, 1tb ssd using low power mode. I am sitting here after using my laptop for web browsing, installing Affinity Photo, software development (VSCode: Go, Angular) and it's been 4 hours and at 73% battery.
I am testing it in low power mode to see how long it will go. I tweaked other settings and wrote a script to alert me when the Mac gets in
Yeah, your configuration (I think) is a sweet spot for the M1 Max. Awesome you’re getting those results so far.
I have been testing a power bank that I really like. It’s from Omnicharge. I mentioned it in my accessories video from last week. I’m continuing to test it, but so far, it’s been great to have on the road.
@@KevinRossRN I will check out that power bank. I enjoy your videos, you are direct and show quality information on topics.
hey are you still getting just as good battery performance? and what settings are you using to get such a great battery life?
Exactly what I’m looking for! It’s understandable that 14 inch M1 Max last shorter when you really have to push it, but it definitely matters more when it’s handling light load as a laptop, as that’s the key of paying for a MacBook Pro instead of a combo of MacBook Air+Mac Studio
There you go. I still have this one in my rotation. A beast of a machine.
@@KevinRossRN Next time for battery life (with macOS Ventura), do you mind showing the Battery tab from the Settings (totally free, come with the system), or historical battery graph from iStat Menus (very nice paid tool), it can make the battery life evaluation more straight forward and informational.
I recently bought a 14 inch M1 Pro with 10 core cpu and felt battery was a bit bad but Low power mode can give me up to 12 hours and doesn’t sacrifice that much performance
The low power mode option is great. Hope you continue to enjoy your MBP 🤘
Iam on a MB 16 M1 MAX and i did recognize about 30% battery life improvement when in Low Power Mode, but u will get about 30% less performance. But have in mind the M1 Max have so much power, that u will not recognize these on normal usage.
Yeah it’s almost as if the efficiency cores alone are as powerful as some laptops running at a full clip. 🤷♂️
I’m still experimenting with it, but for the day-to-day I can always adjust when I need to, but I have to say that I do like the option to toggle it on and off.
@@KevinRossRN Iam just testing and got about 16-17 Hours Battery Life with using Safari and another apps as a Web-Designer on Daily Working in Low Power Mode
Great one, but little confusing, I have iMac 5K 2014 and it is not getting any OS update and I decided to upgrade my system. I did ordered exactly same as your 14" but now I am about to cancel my order.
Cancel because of the battery?
@@KevinRossRN No, not really just kidding. I believe some people may do, but for me is really an upgrade.
Oh it’ll be a massive upgrade.
@@KevinRossRN yes it is. thanks to you and detailed reviews. Thanks bro
@@KevinRossRN something I never get it. if I leave the MacBook Pro plugged in and be connected to a monitor for long time dose this damage the battery ?
I have a base model 16 inch mbp. I took this to work. Powered it on. Opened one safari tab and left it loaded on screen. This tab had our fleet of trucks. So it was our gps landing page that refreshed a couple times a minute. Additionally, I had a bt mouse connected. Absolutely nothing else was going on. Nothing else running in the background. I just wanted one screen for this gps page. Battery lasted me 7 hours. Almost exactly 7 hours. Did this 3 days in a row with same performance. I’m not happy with these results. 7 hours is no where near what apple touted.
Now this is an interesting test here. Were you able to dig into Activity Monitor or any third party apps to see if the site is resource intensive?
Also, I do think that there are certain tasks that can be a bit nuanced where the cores on the higher end machines (CPU and GPU) are managing the load a bit better…but I’d need a base model to compare.
Have you, or are you trying any other tests? I’d say you should get well beyond that 7 hours.
@@KevinRossRN I didn’t check anything out to test performance. And I’m not doing any tests. honestly, I’m a windows guy. My Lenovo yoga laptop’s batter was bulging so I decided to try out a Mac. So I bought a m1 mbp 13 in June. Used it maybe twice. Then these new mbp’s came out and I wanted the big screen. So I got the 16. It’s a glorified media player for me.
Yikes! Yeah that’s a lot of coin to drop for a media player. Even running Windows through Parallels is smooth, but again, not necessarily a good excuse for the MBP alone. IMO.
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Right back at you 🤘
I just received my MBP, M1 Max, 32GB and 1TB ssd. I cannot tell if something is wrong with my device, but i'm getting very disappointing battery life! Even when browsing the internet my battery is dropping like crazy. I'm getting around 3-4 hours doing very light work (and not many apps opened). Honestly what could I do to fix this, because for the amount of money, even my 2015 Macbook Air will beat this battery life....?
How long have you had it? And, are you primarily using Chrome?
Also, you may need a few battery cycles to work through. And in activity monitor are you seeing primarily the efficiency cores being used?
@@KevinRossRN I've had this Macbook since this Wednesday and went through one full battery cycle so far. Just now I've been setting up all my software to start my graphic design work, but considering i've only been browsing on safari/chrome i find this battery performance very worrying for this expensive of a device. Especially since I was planning on using this MBP for creative work and also take it to college to follow classes. I am not looking forward to constantly having to charge during lectures. A different more efficient Macbook would be not powerful enough for my work, so that's couldn't be an option either. Apple definitely advertised the battery to be better, or I have a faulty unit?
I’m not sure if you have a faulty unit, but I’d try to work through a few cycles and let it learn how you’re using it.
Chrome will definitely use more resources, but I also have Chrome as well, and tested it with that browser. Did you look to see if you have anything else running in the background that could be a battery hog?
I found in my initial tests just a couple of days in I had a monitoring app that seemed to crush the battery at first, but then I was able to get that resolved.
M1 Max 14" config will have the lowest battery life out of all the configs.
@@arvinsim yea that was to be expected, but 3-4 hours doing no intensive tasks is not acceptable
Lol, if I want cheaper flights that will take some stops, none of existing laptops can last that long😂
Ha! Maybe we should expect more (for less) from the airlines. 🛫🛬😉
Thank you! Thank you. Thank you. Using not too much a load, with brightness I don't need a candle to see the screen, I get roughly 8 hours life. Reboots and software loads on our 16 inch M1 Max's are at best 10% faster than our 9 year old MacBook Pros (with SSD). Apple have way overhyped the capability of these machines. And as you noted, they weren't cheap. I suspect now the real reason Apple left Intel, wasn't breakthrough speed or battery life, because for sure it isn't, but that Apple wanted the processor margin $ they were paying to Intel.
Yeah, will the way logistics are now, and Apple already dealing with their own manufacturing delays, this is also about cutting that dependence on other manufacturers (Intel) as much as possible.
Glad you found us over here.