MacBook Pro 16 inch battery life

Just got a new MacBook Pro 16" and today is the first full day of use. I am getting less than 4 hours of battery life, not even close to the advertised 11 hours.


Will do more testing at work tomorrow and hopefully things improve.


Config is 2.4GHZ 8-core, i9, 32GB RAM, Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB


MacBook Pro 16", macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 24, 2019 7:55 PM

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Posted on Mar 25, 2020 11:01 AM

Partially figured it out (for me at least)


Station (getstation.com) was forcing my discrete GPU to run all the time and eat up all my battery.


Open it using terminal with this command: `open /Applications/Station.app/ --args --disable-gpu`

and your battery life life goes from about 3 hours to over 5 hours.

Still not even close to a full day, but much better.

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