{"id":5229,"date":"2020-11-22T16:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2020-11-22T16:38:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T15:38:32","slug":"try-microsoft-remote-desktop-if-you-want-to-drain-the-m1-battery-%f0%9f%98%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/mac\/try-microsoft-remote-desktop-if-you-want-to-drain-the-m1-battery-%f0%9f%98%80\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Microsoft Remote Desktop if you want to drain the M1 battery \ud83d\ude00"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep reading reviews & watching videos where people can’t drain the new M1 MacBook Air\/ Pro battery and can go for days on a single charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I noticed my battery was draining; maybe not faster than on a pre-M1 MacBook but definitely noticeable enough for me to see the bar reduce over an hour. Which was surprising coz all I had open was Firefox, Safari, iTerm2, and Microsoft RDP. I never expected RDP to cause a drain but sure enough it seems to be a hog (am RDPing to single Windows laptop over Wi-Fi in case that matters). Here’s some screenshots from Activity Monitor:<\/p>\n

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I don’t do much RDP while on battery so I don’t know if it’s any worse or better on the M1. And no, I wasn’t watching a movie or something over RDP. I was RDPing onto my laptop and using Hyper-V Manager. I do find it funny that silly old RDP is having such an impact. :)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep reading reviews & watching videos where people can’t drain the new M1 MacBook Air\/ Pro battery and can go for days on a single charge.\u00a0 I noticed my battery was draining; maybe not faster than on a pre-M1 MacBook but definitely noticeable enough for me to see the bar reduce over an hour. … Continue reading Try Microsoft Remote Desktop if you want to drain the M1 battery \ud83d\ude00<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[853],"tags":[955],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}