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mmcnltoday at 2:55 PM1 replyview on HN

It doesn't. They take extreme use cases such as watching video until the battery depletes at maximum brightness where 90% of power consumption is the display. But in realistic use cases the fraction of power draw consumed by the display is much smaller when the CPU is actually doing things.


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kjkjadksjtoday at 3:10 PM

For whatever reason I keep catching my macbook on max brightness. Maybe not an unrealistic test.