Reports of M-series MacBook battery drain, laptop heating issues, suspected Electron renderer problems, and requests for solutions to performance problems
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Users of M-series MacBooks are reporting severe performance hurdles with AI applications, noting that tools like Claude Cowork and Codex are often "unusably slow" and cause extreme battery drain. There is significant frustration regarding the Electron framework, with reports of laptops overheating into literal heaters and batteries depleting in as little as two hours due to suspected rendering inefficiencies. Beyond these technical grievances, some users are beginning to question the fundamental viability of AI for general computer use, arguing that the "robotic" and sluggish nature of current LLMs makes them inherently ill-suited for such tasks.
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