Hey friends!
I have a new 16" MacBook Pro with 8 core i9 and radion 5500m and while I am running it under heavy load (resolume, mad mapper, etc) the battery slowly drains even though it's on the power adapter. I haven't been able to find much by way of apple forums or other users with this issue. I have found that windows laptops with similar configs use their own proprietary power adapters as 100w is the limit for power delivery over thunderbolt 3 and this hardware seems to require more than that.
What do y'all think? Did apple design a machine that required more power than the adapter can provide in order to stay with the thunderbolt style power adapter? It's frustrating for how much I spent on this, seriously considering returning it and going with a Razer.
I went to the apple store and the dude there was like try running fewer apps (eye roll, why buy a $3000 computer?) and they exchanged it and the problem persists. I double checked in system info that it is the 96w adapter and the cable is delivering the full 96 watts.
Any advice or consolation appreciated. I used to run resolume and mad mapper on a 2015 MacBook with integrated graphics and it could handle it! It brings this brand new machine to its knees.