Mac laptops may be eligible for an extended battery-only repair period for up to 10 years from when the product was last distributed for sale, subject to parts availability. Find out which products are obsolete: MacBook batteries can last most of a working day before you need to plug in the device for a recharge, and Apple reckons the latest models can last for the whole working day. Besides screen brightness, your problem is Chrome. Google "Chrome battery on MacBook". Switch to Safari and be amazed. Also switch to low power mode. There is a thread on here where I posted my battery log for a very long day of usage (like 12 hours) and ending the day at 48% on low power mode. That said, I bought an open box MacBook Air M2 13.6 inch MacBook air in midnight, and the battery life has been STELLAR. Now, I'm biased seeing as a came from an Asus vivobook flip 14, and it's whopping battery life of like 5 hours. but I haven't charged my laptop in like 3 days, several hours of mixed heavy and light use a day, and it's at 37 Great expectations When I wrote about the incredible MacBook Pro M2 battery life results last month, I noted that if the MacBook Air M2 saw a similar increase, it should deliver about 16 Don’t get me wrong — the battery life on the M1 MacBook Air is superb for a modern laptop. The same goes for the M1 MacBook Pro, which manages to squeeze an additional two hours out of the day. The battery life of the MacBook Air is truly impressive. The M1 and M2 chips can provide almost a full day’s battery life. Tom’s Guide battery test (web browsing) showed that the MacBook Air M1 can last for 14 hours and 41 minutes. If we compare the battery life of this laptop to previous Intel Mac computers, they also fall short. Mac mini models from 2014 or later. iMac models from late 2015 or later. iMac Pro from 2017. Mac Pro models from 2013 or later. According to MacWorld, the average MacBook Pro lasts from five to eight years. Based on OS updates alone, you can see that a Mac typically lasts between eight and 11 years, depending on the model. How long will 15 battery last on Mac? With the introduction of the MacBook Pro “Core Duo” 2.16 17-Inch on April 26, 2006, Apple reported that the battery life of the 17-Inch model was 5.5 hours, and that the 15-Inch models provide 4.5 hours of battery life, officially confirming the earlier speculation. M2 14″ MacBook Pro: M1 14″ MacBook Pro: M2 16″ MacBook Pro: M1 16″ MacBook Pro: Wireless web battery: 12 hours: 11 hours: 15 hours: 14 hours: Video playback: 18 hours: 17 hours: 22 hours y6vv.