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"The new MacBook Pro gets up to 24 hours of battery life, giving Intel-based upgraders up to 13 additional hours"

I have a Intel-based 2019 Macbook Pro still and I have NEVER in its lifetime gotten even half of what they are claiming here. These days if I run it from battery I might get 90 mins.

That said I had a maxed out Macbook Pro M4 Max on order but just cancelled it right now and will get this new M5 Max one for basically the same price. Once I saw that they didn't up the price of memory (I don't know how it doesn't affect them) I canceled my order.

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I had intel MacBook Pro. It is a NIGHT and DAY difference. I wish I didn’t get the 16gb of memory though. It is ok, but running 5-10 cursor ai agents at the same time does start to choke the memory. Battery is absolutely amazing! And the best part - it stays cold!! No more irritated from heat fingers when using touchpad.

24 hours is a bit generous, but after wavering on upgrading from intel for ages, I got the M4 Pro 16", and it is wildly better in every dimension as long as you don't need native x86. I do usually still run battery saver mode though and rarely notice a difference between that and full power in my regular workloads. Games run fine, everything is juicy, 48gb of ram turned out to be the right choice.

> That said I had a maxed out Macbook Pro M4 Max on order but just cancelled it right now and will get this new M5 Max one for basically the same price.

You sadly just missed the window or cancelled too soon.

Normally if your current order is in progress they swap it out for the best closest spec for the exact same price you ordered the M4.

If only Moore's law had applied to MacBook battery life... https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/dyukq/macbook_air_20...

They are at least nice for comparing it with the max of the Intel. That should really say gives them up to 22 additional hours given the wear on their batteries lol

Doesn't affect then because of massive, bilion USD contracts they have in components.

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