[cpressland]

This just isn’t true. I have a full development setup on my M1 Pro 14”, VSCode, Docker running multiple instances of Postgres, Redis, and RabbitMQ. Edge with more tabs than I can shake a stick at because of my ADHD, and worst of all - Microsoft Teams.

I easily get a 12-14 hour battery life on this setup, and that’s with YouTube videos also playing in the background intermittently.

Back when I had the M1 Air, I had less concurrency due to memory limitations but even better battery life, these CPUs are insanely efficient.

Everybody’s mileage will vary, but this is a powerhouse development machine, to suggest otherwise is silly.

[ActorNightly]

Im not going too much into detail because fighting against the obvious pro apple bias on here is pointless, but you can read plenty of reports about lower battery life given more load, screen brightness, e.t.c. Keep in mind that just because you are "running" stuff, if a thread/process sits idle without interaction, its drawing minimal cpu load.

And yes, the M1/M2 is definitely more efficient given sparse loads, but its not groundbreaking in any sense because phones have been like this for quite some time. Take a bone stock android phone without any apps, leave it on for a day without use, and you will come back to minimal battery drain.