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What's "a working day"? 8 hours continuous use? Because that's fairly ambitious even with a brand new battery and frugal apps.
The Apple "Activity Monitor" app has an Energy tab that can tell you useful things.
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Maybe a bit less in terms of activity, but about that. Teams calls would be the only heavy use. Everything else would be Officey stuff.
I was sure when the M1 Air came out everyone was jizzing themselves senseless over the battery life, so I was just a bit surprised vs their old X1 (only 10hrs claimed). It's a work laptop, so Idk what it's history is like, but other than the charger it looks in vgc.
Cheers all for the guidance - I just wanted to make sure there wasn't something specific like the display settings or whatever.
hugo7
^^ didn't Apple used not to have two mouse buttons?
^ cheers - the BT dongle plugged into my Anker hub seems to be working aok.
Another random question, but how long would people expect a used m2 13" MBP last? My OH says she can't get a working day out of it. Idk how old it is, but I didn't think they'd been around so long that the battery would be that bad.
Is there anything obvious that slays battery life, or some smart battery analysis?