I’ve still got around a dozen other tabs open.Ĩ:30PM: My friends, we are still at 100 percent. God, I love how fast this thing loads Google Docs. I pull up a short story I’m working on, which is a Google Doc that’s around 20 pages. Don’t judge me, I care about my eyes, you monsters.Ĩ:25PM: The internet is boring. It’s getting dark out, so I turn on night light. I double check to make sure the battery meter is working. I’ve got Spotify running the “Chill Pop” playlist. I’ve got the screen at medium brightness, with True Tone off. That said, it is my personal and private diary, so please don’t tell anyone about it.Ĩ:00PM: I am in for the night. 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. And I kept a little diary of the process, which I’m sharing here.
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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).Īpple MacBook Pro 13 (2022) review: new chip, old threadsĪnyway, I did run the thing down. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge etc.) The MacBook Pro M2, just sitting there, taunting me that I won’t be able to kill its battery in a reasonable amount of time. Never treat one review as your only data point, etc. (That said, our battery life test is always a ballpark estimate, and I’ve never pretended it’s anything else. That will be based on multiple trials, and hopefully many that are not as. First, this is not the official battery life estimate with which I will ultimately be updating the review. I was going to drain this battery if it was the last thing I did I was going to drain this stupid battery down to zero if it was the last thing I did. I decided, when I got home and finished dinner around 7:30PM, that it was time.
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That’s how absurdly long this laptop lasts.īut, 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 did not have a long enough interrupted span of time to continuously use the device. 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. 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. My review of the M2 MacBook Pro went up last Wednesday.