

OptimizationsĮven if you have an advertised battery backup of 18+ hours, you will never be able to get a full day back up with the above workload unless you have some optimizations. Not all of them may be needed in parallel, but someone who is using IntelliJ like a heavyweight IDE could easily comprehend the number of resources it requires.

Browser windows ( Google sheets, GMeet, Stack overflow ).Utilities ( OpenVPN, RDP, Notion, Calendar, Notes, Mail ).Services ( Running Mysql, RabbitMQ, MongoDB locally ).IDEs ( IntelliJ for Spring-based enterprise microservices, VSCode for React Native, Sublime for scripting ).We will see how to achieve the same on any M1 mac. I am using this laptop as the daily driver as a full stack developer and am getting a full day ( 9 to 9 ) battery back up. They are so energy efficient and powerful that Apple is claiming 18 hours of battery backup with the Macbook Air for normal day use ( browsing, email, streaming, etc ). The new Macbook Air M1 uses an ARM 64 based SoC ( System On Chip ) developed by Apple.
