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Apple MacBook Pro 16 2023 M3 Pro review - Efficiency before performance (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Stiven_Crysis@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] moops__@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The battery life is amazing with lightweight workloads. Unfortunately when doing anything more it becomes fairly mediocre. With my normal dev work it lasts about 2-3 hours at best.

[–] peduxe@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

on Max or Pro chip?

[–] poopyheadthrowaway@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Apple's secret sauce isn't necessarily perf/watt in an all-core load (although they're obviously near the top there as well) but in idle power consumption. I'm guessing that M3 does better here, but I remember seeing a Phoronix test/review that showed that when capped at 15 W, the latest Ryzen laptop CPU beats the M2 in all-core workloads, although the M2 gets better battery life in "normal" workloads.

[–] alfcalderone@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You running a ton of containers or something? I have a fairly intensive set of Docker containers running at all times and still usually get a full-ish work day out of my M1 Pro MBP

[–] bananalyticalBanana@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I usually get around 10 hours doing front-end dev and design work.