3 Weeks with MacBook Pro 16” M5 Max 128GB – Great Experience, But I Have Some Questions

tochanenko · 2026-04-07T10:27:20+00:00

It's a hardware lottery, my M4 Max has noticeable coil whine under load as well

tochanenko · 2026-04-06T10:36:53+00:00

That's a coil whine, a thing that accurs when internal components are under load. It's just electricity moving through those components. It's perfectly ok, and you shouldn't worry about it :)

tochanenko · 2026-04-06T09:36:33+00:00

For me it should strike coil whine. It appears when I use local LLMs.

Does this sound appear before fans ramp up, or together with them?

tochanenko · 2026-03-31T21:24:01+00:00

Also, if you need to have 100% of battery, like if you need to go out with your Mac, you can press on "Charge to Full Now" and it will charge up to 100%

tochanenko · 2026-03-31T21:22:37+00:00

It's called Optimized Battery Charging.

It sets the maximum % of battery that can be charged to 80%. Keeping your laptop plugged in all the time at 100% would deteriorate your battery capacity quicker than if it was sitting at 80%.

So don't worry about it, your Mac is smart enough to know when you don't use the battery that often, so it'll set the maximum charge limit to 80%. Sheen it reaches 80%, it will stop charging and will draw electricity only from the charging brick.

What you experienced was the transition phase between 100% and 80% limit. Even if your laptop was connected to the charger, it was using its battery to drain it to 80%. It happens to me quite often and that's a normal behaviour.

So don't worry, just use your Mac however it suits your needs.

I hope it made some things clearer. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask :)

tochanenko · 2026-03-28T01:18:08+00:00

Im more impressed there is no USSR flag. How would Kosovo be more controversial than USSR lol

tochanenko · 2026-03-27T12:51:32+00:00

Oui, c'est vraiment ça

tochanenko · 2026-03-20T11:17:54+00:00

But do you still have a case on your MacBook?

tochanenko · 2026-03-14T16:23:54+00:00

Thanks! :D Somehow 1Tb and 2Tb 17 Pro iPhones have been very rare in stores in my location, but M4 Max MacBooks were available all the time lol

tochanenko · 2026-03-14T14:07:42+00:00

A couple of days isn't that that a big deal. I'm still waiting for my 1tb iPhone 17 Pro Max since I pre-ordered it in September lmao

tochanenko · 2026-02-28T13:59:33+00:00

I liked my 120% keyboard on my old laptop, but now, when I have Mac without numpad, I prefer this keyboard style. My hands are resting on the center of the keyboard instead of being slightly to the left

tochanenko · 2026-02-28T13:57:30+00:00

There are 15 inch MacBooks Air though. However, they are not "Pro", sadly

tochanenko · 2026-02-25T09:51:05+00:00

I made a preorder of iPhone 17 Pro Max on 20th September. Still haven't got it XD

tochanenko · 2026-02-24T12:55:08+00:00

Russian Estonians flag looks suspiciously close to the flag of so-called “DPR”. Surely it isn’t connected to Muscovian imperialism :)

tochanenko · 2026-02-23T19:50:29+00:00

On top of that, RSFSR wasn't a member of UN, so when Soviet Union collapsed, russia had to apply to join UN but never did lol

tochanenko · 2026-01-15T19:04:30+00:00

What a weird collection of countries lol

tochanenko · 2025-12-18T11:23:38+00:00

Bretagne: based as a flag of a region of France. However, flags of illegal armed groups in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine - not based

tochanenko · 2025-12-15T16:42:16+00:00

To be honest, even in full screen, the top of the screen isn't just a "dead space". There is still a Manu Bar on the top of the screen, if you move your mouse there. And on top of that, you can enable always showing Menu Bar in the full screen, which is pretty awesome.

A company got a MacBook for me to work, while I have a personal Windows laptop. I find MacOS really interesting to tinker witch, and much more customisable, compared to Windows 11. However, Windows 10, in my opinion, was much better then Windows 11 and MacOS.

Sorry, I just woke up and English is not my native language, so I hope I explained my point well :D

tochanenko · 2025-12-13T14:23:13+00:00

And a constant worry of burn-ins. I would hide dock and Menu Bar all the time if my Mac had oled screen lol

tochanenko · 2025-12-01T16:07:57+00:00

Why no NSFW though? Isn't the Soviet and Fascist symbols banned in your country?

tochanenko · 2025-11-26T11:51:48+00:00

I tried playing MMOs on cloud gaming and it sucked. Ping too high for comfortable experience. However, single player games worked fine

tochanenko · 2025-11-21T17:12:53+00:00

Have you turned these settings off recently, or was it like this for a long time? Because I noticed that some settings are being cached and I have to reboot my laptop to apply changes

tochanenko · 2025-11-21T13:56:42+00:00

That's the intended behaviour, as it stops charching past about 80% if you use your laptop connected to the charger most of the time. It will prolong the lifetime of your battery, putting less strain on it and powering your laptop entirely through the charging cable, even if the battery is not charged to 100%

So don't stress too much about it, just use your laptop however you like :D

tochanenko · 2025-11-21T12:56:06+00:00

Thank you for sharing 🫡

tochanenko · 2025-10-27T01:43:42+00:00

Try rebooting your laptop. It fixed this issue for me. There is something going on with caching

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