Mimics what I've seen on a maxed out 15" MBP. Author killed the battery in 83 minutes running a CPU benchmark and in 81 minutes with the GPU on Tomb Raider.
Browsing the Internet, I easily get 4-6+ hours of battery life. If I switch to coding (RStudio IDE seems to be very intensive) or similar, battery life drops precipitously.
I still dislike the keyboard after a few weeks of using it; I briefly switched back to my old MacBook Air to move some files a few days ago, and it was really much nicer.
Migrating from a MacBook Air, the biggest improvement (by far eclipsing anything else) was the screen. It's incredible, although I can't compare it to the previous generation MBP. The touch bar feels like a gimmick; I rarely use it. At least it doesn't get in the way, and the virtualized escape key is totally fine. I've also had palm rejection issues with the enormous touchpad that I never had with my MacBook Air.
The weirdest issue I am having is that programs crash after resuming from sleep. RStudio crashes almost 100% of the time. It's hard to interpret the error messages, but I believe it might be due to a bad RAM chip ("memory not mapped"). No Mac I've ever owned has done this before. I'd really appreciate it if anyone had advice for this! It's getting to be problematic.
Browsing the Internet, I easily get 4-6+ hours of battery life. If I switch to coding (RStudio IDE seems to be very intensive) or similar, battery life drops precipitously.
I still dislike the keyboard after a few weeks of using it; I briefly switched back to my old MacBook Air to move some files a few days ago, and it was really much nicer.
Migrating from a MacBook Air, the biggest improvement (by far eclipsing anything else) was the screen. It's incredible, although I can't compare it to the previous generation MBP. The touch bar feels like a gimmick; I rarely use it. At least it doesn't get in the way, and the virtualized escape key is totally fine. I've also had palm rejection issues with the enormous touchpad that I never had with my MacBook Air.
The weirdest issue I am having is that programs crash after resuming from sleep. RStudio crashes almost 100% of the time. It's hard to interpret the error messages, but I believe it might be due to a bad RAM chip ("memory not mapped"). No Mac I've ever owned has done this before. I'd really appreciate it if anyone had advice for this! It's getting to be problematic.