While an individual case, this M1 MacBook Air owner provided so much detail that the results do highlight the type of fast, efficient, and reliable experience new M1 Mac buyers can expect. Despite this busy day of use, the owner reported that the M1 MacBookAir still had 28-percent battery remaining. Three hours were spent browsing the internet, using Microsoft Office and reading and composing emails, and the lid was down enabling sleep mode for 45-minutes. For example, while working with someone to become familiar with zoom, using the share screen function, attempting to pull up the white board, it goes directly to the privacy setting on the mac. I'm a mac user and I'm having difficult with basic function operating with the mac. The end of day summary indicated the MacBook Air was in use for over seven and a half hours, with half of that time spent in Zoom meetings. I'm new to zoom and am in need of assistance. The M1 MacBook Air owner mentioned above, gave a periodic battery life update throughout the day, along with screenshots.

The original poster, akholief, asked whether it was normal for the battery to drain 65-percent in a two-hour Zoom meeting.

For example, in an Apple Discussion thread, at least four participants confirmed that their 16-inch MacBook Pro (with an Intel CPU) saw the battery drop rapidly when using the video meeting app. Zoom conferencing is known to be a burden on MacBook batteries. It can magnify a screen up to 40x its normal display size. 6- Enter your OS administrator username and password. Mac OS X Snow Leopard Zoom is a built-in screen magnifier for Mac OS X. 4- Select the Privacy tab 5- Click the lock icon in the bottom left corner of the Security & Privacy window. Apple’s M1 Mac computers are known to be fast and efficient, but owners of the new devices are beginning to share impressive early results. 1- Click the Apple logo at the top left corner of your screen.

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