Matt BirchlerSep 15, 2024
Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? I tested for 36 hours to find out. https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-mac-battery-life-but-does-it-i-tested-for-36-hours-to-find-out/
Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? I tested for 36 hours to find out.

Long time Birchtree readers know I love data, and love data even more when I can throw it into a graph. I’m also a fan of testing things that everyone generally agrees are true, but no one seems to have any data to back up. That brings us to

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Show threadJonathan L.
@matt might be a good second test to see what Chrome is doing when it doesn't have all the resources. Chrome is said to consume all the RAM it can get, maybe it's either battery life or RAM but you can't have efficiency in both?
Sep 15, 2024 at 7:43amIvory for iOS
Show threadMatt BirchlerSep 15, 2024
@namekkural So it wasn’t part of the test, but Chrome was also using less RAM at the end of each run that I checked it.
Show threadJonathan L.Sep 15, 2024
@matt interesting!