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| Apple's MacBook Pro M2 sent me on a journey to kill its battery - The Verge Posted: 26 Jun 2022 05:30 AM PDT My review of the M2 MacBook Pro went up last Wednesday. But as soon as I got my hands on the device on the prior Thursday, it was clear that running down the battery — one of the most important things a laptop reviewer needs to do — was going to be a Whole Thing. Reader, I tried. I would use the device all evening and leave it running all night, but it would still have plenty of charge left in the morning, and I'd have to plug it in for testing, abandon it to film, or give it to our video and photo teams for shooting before I could fully drain it down. I did not have a long enough interrupted span of time to continuously use the device. That's how absurdly long this laptop lasts. But, with the written review and the video review both live, and a solid evening and subsequent morning with no plans or obligations, last Thursday gave me my first real uninterrupted free time since the review unit had arrived. I decided, when I got home and finished dinner around 7:30PM, that it was time. I was going to kill this thing. I was going to drain this stupid battery down to zero if it was the last thing I did. Quickly, some housekeeping. First, this is not the official battery life estimate with which I will ultimately be updating the review. That will be based on multiple trials, and hopefully many that are not as... weird as what I did here. (That said, our battery life test is always a ballpark estimate, and I've never pretended it's anything else. Never treat one review as your only data point, etc. etc.) :format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23642682/akrales_220620_5303_0018.jpg) Second, while I did really want to kill this battery, I should emphasize that I always want my battery tests to reflect my personal workload — so while there are certainly intense things I could've done to kill the battery more quickly, I did take care here not to artificially run anything ridiculous and to stick with programs and tasks that I would actually do on a real day (albeit a more intense real day, in parts). Anyway, I did run the thing down. And I kept a little diary of the process, which I'm sharing here. This, I hope, will give you some idea of the various things I did on the device as I drained it, and some insight into how fast it might drain if you're running a workload similar to mine. That said, it is my personal and private diary, so please don't tell anyone about it. 8:00PM: I am in for the night. I've got around a dozen tabs open. I've got the screen at medium brightness, with True Tone off. I've got Spotify running the "Chill Pop" playlist. The battery is at 100 percent. Unplug. Let's roll. 8:20PM: Still at 100 percent. I double check to make sure the battery meter is working. It's getting dark out, so I turn on night light. Don't judge me, I care about my eyes, you monsters. 8:25PM: The internet is boring. I pull up a short story I'm working on, which is a Google Doc that's around 20 pages. God, I love how fast this thing loads Google Docs. I've still got around a dozen other tabs open. 8:30PM: My friends, we are still at 100 percent. Considering having a character die in my short story, because if this laptop won't die, somebody's gotta. I decide against it. 9:00PM: We are at 98 percent. The fear that this thing could last 50 hours is giving me legitimate stress. Like, my Garmin Venu is telling me to chillax. :format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23650553/Screenshot_2022_06_24_at_5.32.28_PM.png) 9:30PM: 95 percent. "I don't think this thing is ever going to die lol," I iMessage a friend. "Lol wow," my friend replies. 9:30PM is our intellectual time to shine. 9:45PM: 91 percent.The "Chill Pop" playlist has run its course. I move on to "Today's Hits". Stay by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber begins playing. Ah, yes. Today's' hits. 10:15PM: Hitting a wall with my story, but I leave the Google Doc open in case inspiration strikes. I start running PugetBench for Premiere Pro just to feel something. It's oddly therapeutic to give the benchmark full control of my computer and try to figure out what ridiculous things it's doing. Is anything in life really in our hands? Are we not all obscure GPU effects being thrown at random Premiere footage, in a way? 10:30PM: This is around when the Gigabyte Aero 16 would be dying. The MacBook, though, is still very much alive. Anyway, I feel like I'm clearly not taxing this thing hard enough, so I look around for things that might need to be updated. Some of my Adobe apps are out of date, so I set those downloads off. I've been wanting to familiarize myself with After Effects, so I play around with that for a bit. 11:59PM: 78 percent. Well, I still don't understand how to do anything in After Effects, but at least I tried. I've also gotten through "Today's Hits". Creative Suite is done updating, so I open all the apps I have at once just to see if it will slow the computer down. It doesn't, of course. I mess around in Lightroom with some photos that I might (but probably will not ever) upload to Instagram, as one does. :format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23650512/Screenshot_2022_06_24_at_5.14.36_PM.png) 12:15PM: I do some Swift Playgrounds 4 because I can't get over how cute the little animations are. I do a Rosetta Stone lesson with Swift Playgrounds 4 running in the background. Look, therapist, you can't say I'm not working on myself. The screen is starting to feel way too bright, but don't worry: I will kill my eyes for the sake of the blogs. 12:26AM: 73 percent. I've run out of things to do. I am watching old K-pop videos on YouTube. "What if we went to Lollapalooza?" I iMessage a friend. "We are not going to Lollapalooza," the friend responds. 12:47AM: I've wandered back to the short story. I'm very tired, so it's getting a bit weird. I start downloading some more Adobe software, because you might as well go big. I have no idea what Bridge is, but I'm sure I can find a use for it. 2:13AM: 63 percent. Calling it a night. I leave a YouTube video ("Fireplace 10 Hours Full HD", one of my favorites, the vibes are immaculate) running as well as the "Chill Hits" Spotify playlist. Please die, I think at the device, as I fall asleep with it beside my head. It's in God's hands now. 8:15AM: I wake up because construction is going on outside, which is the New York City 4-D experience. The MacBook Pro is still going strong at 36 percent. I start PugetBench to give it something to do and go back to sleep (I have the morning off). 10:26AM: I wake up again, this time because I'm stressed that I made a mistake in a draft I filed yesterday. This is just a thing I worry about. I pull up the draft and read through it. No mistake. Crisis averted. Back to bed. Laptop at 21 percent, various things still running. 11:40AM: I wake up for the final time, and it's the first thing my bleary eyes see: The red battery. That glorious, glorious red. Red, the blood of laptop reviewers who have almost, almost completed their battery run. The laptop is at 9 percent. We are so close, everyone. So close. 11:42AM: Time to kill this thing dead. I open Slack. I keep Spotify blasting. I open three different email tabs, a bunch of blog posts, a video, iMessage, Sticky Notes, Lightroom. I start downloading a game on Steam. I work on my review of another computer, clicking around a whole bunch of other reviews that are covered in ads. It's going to die any minute now, I think, with an eye on the red battery meter. 12:30PM: Well, the final stretch takes a lot longer than I thought it would. But after 16 hours, 30 minutes, and 39 seconds, the M2 MacBook Pro is done for. It died in the middle of playing Tomorrow X Together's Can't You See Me music video, right as they're setting a building on fire. There should be a metaphor in there somewhere, but I'm too tired to find it. 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| Difference between MacBook Air and Pro: How the redesigned lightweight MacBook stacks up - 9to5Mac Posted: 24 Jun 2022 12:50 PM PDT Apple's MacBook lineup has been fully refreshed between the new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 chips arriving this summer and the 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro landing last fall. And Apple is keeping the M1 MacBook Air in the lineup too. Let's take an in-depth look at the difference between MacBook Air and Pro to see what sets these MacBooks apart. Update 6/24: Orders are open for the M2 13-inch MacBook Pro and Apple has also started its Back to School promotion. But we're still waiting on the M2 MacBook Air to launch which is slated for July. Read on for why the new M2 MacBook Air is a better choice over the M2 13-inch MacBook Pro, unless the 14 or 16-inch MacBook Pro is a better fit. Table of contentsThe 2021 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro notebooks feature a fresh design, mini-LED display backlighting, the return of I/O including HDMI, SD card slot, and MagSafe, and the removal of the Touch Bar. And they have more power than ever with the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips (if you're on the fence between the 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro, check out our detailed guide). Now Apple has unveiled the new 2022 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro running on the upgraded M2 chip. The MacBook Air has received the most changes with an all-new design, larger 13.6-inch display, flat-edged chassis, new midnight color, upgraded webcam, and much more. Difference between MacBook Air and ProCPU, GPU, RAM, more Apple announced its second-generation base Apple Silicon processor with M2. While it's a notable upgrade over the M1, the M2 is less powerful than the M1 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips. M2 enables up to 24GB RAM, up to 10 GPU cores, and comes with a faster 8-core CPU than the M1. Here's a more detailed look at the M1 vs M2 chips. Meanwhile, with the 14-inch MacBook Pro, you get the M1 Pro or M1 Max chip with the option for even more CPU and GPU cores, and RAM up to 64GB.
Apple says the M2 is up to 18% faster for CPU performance and up to 35% faster for GPU performance than the M1. It has over 20 billion transistors and can handle up to 15.8 trillion operations per second.   The M2 chip also features a media engine that brings support for hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW. It also has a video and ProRes encode and decode engine. Another nice addition to the 2022 MacBook Air is a 1080p webcam like the 14-inch MacBook Pro received. Apple says it has the same "advanced image signal processor with computational video." Meanwhile, the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro sticks with the old 720p webcam. Displays If screen brightness is important to you, the 2022 MacBook Air gets a nice improvement from 400 to 500 nits brightness. Another change with the redesign is the new MacBook Air has a larger 13.6-inch screen with slimmer bezels. While the 14-inch MacBook Pro's up to 1,000 sustained nits brightness (1,600 peak) is just for HDR content, you're still getting up to 120Hz refresh rates with ProMotion, mini-LED backlighting, and thin bezels.
The new MacBook Air and the 14-inch MacBook Pro include a notch at the top center of the display for the 1080p FaceTime camera. But unlike the iPhone, the notch doesn't include Face ID hardware/support. I/O: Difference between MacBook Air and Pro The 2022 MacBook Air gains MagSafe charging like the 2021 MacBook Pro notebooks. However, Apple has kept additions like HDMI, SDXC slot, and support for up to 4 external displays exclusive to the 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro. The new 2022 MacBook Air and 13-inch Pro have support for just 1 external display up to 6K at 60Hz, even with the new M2 chip. That may be a deal-breaker for some. Along with the two USB4/Thunderbolt 3 ports, the new MacBook Air keeps the 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Size, weight, and finish As you'd expect, the MacBook Air remains the lightest machine with the 13-inch MacBook Pro weighing a bit more, and the 14-inch being the heaviest. The new MacBook Air is even 0.1 pounds lighter than its 2020 predecessor. The new MacBook Air is also super-thin at 11.3 mm (0.44 in). And if the gold or new midnight colors are appealing, those are only available with the MacBook Air.
  Notably, the new MacBook Air has shifted from the wedge design it's had for years and now has a flat-edge chassis like the MacBook Pro. But Apple has made it very slim at just 11.3 mm (1.13 cm) thin. Battery life Real-world battery life for Apple Silicon MacBooks compared to the old Intel models has been impressive and usually matches Apple's claims. But that can depend on what you're doing with your MacBook, screen brightness, and more. In any case, the power efficiency and battery life come in strong with the new M2 MacBook Air.
Apple says when using the 67W power adapter, the new MacBook Air can fast charge to give up to 50% battery in just 30 minutes. PricingWith a starting price of $1,199, the new MacBook Air comes in $800 less than the 14-inch MacBook Pro which starts at $1,999. Standard models of the new Air are 256GB SSD/8GB RAM and 512GB SSD/8GB RAM configurations. Models with 16 or 24GB RAM for the 2022 Air and upgraded M2 chip are custom orders. The 14-inch MacBook Pro base model at $1,999 with an M1 Pro chip, 16GB RAM, and 512GB SSD.
Difference between MacBook Air and Pro conclusion Hopefully, now it's clear which MacBook is right for you. If you have light to medium performance needs – and even some limited intensive needs, and prefer the lightest machine with great battery life, the MacBook Air is the best fit starting at a reasonable $1,199 or $1,099 for students and teachers. Apple hasn't shared exactly when the new MacBook Air will launch other than "July" for now. For those wanting to save some money and have simple workflows (web, docs, media), the $999 M1 MacBook Air is still in the lineup. But if you value the most power, active cooling for extended heavy workloads, a brighter screen, more ports, and greater external display support, the 14-inch MacBook Pro is the way to go. While the 13-inch MacBook Pro has been refreshed with the M2 chip, there probably are not many people that should buy it. The main difference between the 2022 MacBook Air and Pro is the included fans for the Pro and Touch Bar. But if you're worried about performance and overheating, you should probably be looking at the 14 or 16-inch MacBook Pro. And the new MacBook Air offers many upgrades that the new 13-inch MacBook Pro doesn't like the larger Liquid Retina display, 1080p webcam, MagSafe charging, midnight and starlight color options, and more. Read more 9to5Mac guides: |
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