Macbook Pro 14 M4’s battery drain very fast not as what I expected

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Macbook Pro 14 M4’s battery drain very fast not as what I expected

I sold out my Macbook Pro M4 base model after using 5days because of battery drain very fast not as it should be. I’m a person that very concern about battery life because I don’t like plug in all the time when using my Macbook. I only use light work like Firefox browser for a few tabs with play Apple music in background but the battery drop 1% in every 5 minutes. If I use low power mode on it improved to drop 1% in every 6 minutes. it seems very fast, as apple claimed M4 base model is the last longest battery in Macbook, but it’s not even compare to my old Macbook Air M1 can last 8-9hour for medium work ( adjust photo’s exposure in Lightroom, browser, download video in background and listen to apple music). So disappointed and miss my old Macbook air

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.1

Posted on Jan 9, 2025 01:50 AM

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Jan 9, 2025 04:35 AM in response to fong288

By far the easiest way to cause poor performance, instability, overheating and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, or Virus scanners, Bit Torrent, or a VPN that you installed yourself.

¿Are you running anything like that?

Consider downloading and running this little "discovery" utility, Etrecheck. It changes NOTHING. Etrecheck was developed by senior contributor here, and uses system calls to collect often-needed information.

it contains little tests for speeds of devices, CPU utilization, memory usage, energy usage and a digest of recent problems, in one easy to use package. it does not even need to be Installed. Because less can be learned when your Mac is running great, best time to run is when your problems are actually occurring, if possible.

if you follow the directions faithfully, its report (pre-laundered of all personally-identifiable information) can be "Shared" to the System ClipBoard, then Pasted into an ‘Additional Text’ window in a reply on the forums.

Macbook Pro 14 M4’s battery drain very fast not as what I expected

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