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by djxfade 654 days ago
Modern Mac's use a very similar sleep state, where they can still receive notifications and perform simple background tasks.
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And they give the user the option of turning that behaviour on or off, or allowing it only when connected to external power.
Except that actually works
Yes definetly. Apple's implementation is solid.
For a value of work that leaves you with no battery after a few days, while older Intel macs would last literal months.
While I haven't personally seen it do this (is this on a personal laptop or a work laptop? Corporate management tools do all sorts of silly things), if it's doing that, would recommend just turning it off (it's in settings).
That’s interesting, I have the exact opposite experience. My Intel MBP would keep running or doing something in my backpack such that the battery would be lower and it would be hot. It wasn’t always and the Intel MBP worked better than any windows computer I had used before it but still noticeable. Sometimes after not using it for a day, closed and unplugged, it would be dead.

In contrast, my M-chip MBP never gets hot and the battery is reminiscent of my iPad. I used to stress about my power cord and making sure I had it with me, I still always carry one because I like being prepared but I don’t have to use it hardly ever away from home.

Modern macs also have an irritating behaviour where they will aggressively connect to your bluetooth headphones even when they are asleep. There is absolutely no purpose for this, except annoying you. I've to open the laptop and disable bluetooth otherwise my headphones immediately connect to it and then can't connect to another device.
This isn’t normal. Do you have any kind of audio apps running?
Huh? I've had this happen to me on two distinct macbooks now, so I assumed it was a mac thing. Don't have any special audio apps, I use the laptop for google meet and slack huddles though.
And older intel ones would just set the ACPI timer to get woken up eventually, every once in a while, and re-suspend in a few seconds.