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I'd be curious to hear anyone report how many hours of battery life they get with Asahi under typical web browsing conditions (no video). I've seen plenty of folks use words like "decent" to describe it under Asahi, but very few precise numbers. I'd love to hear "I was able to use my MacBook for 9 hours in Asahi before it died", even if it's purely anecdotal.

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I currently get about 5ish hours SoT on full brightness and a million browser tabs open, which is quite bad compared to what I've heard from other people (and honestly a bit disappointing since battery was supposed to be one of the greatest improvements for the M1). I've recently heard though that screen and keyboard brightness has an enormous impact on battery, so I need to remember to try lowering it and see if it improves. Standby has a slight drain, but I've found it to be the least of my problems since it's not much and I plug it in every night. If anyone has any tips to make my battery last longer, I am very interested to hear them.

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