OK, the results are in!
So for those of you who participated in the 2013 11" Air battery life thread I started, I want to say thank you. Your help led me to purchase an 11" i7 8gb with 256gb ssd.
Well my personal battery life results are in-
My setup---
-Brightness set to 6 filled boxes
-Bluetooth off
-Powernap off
-Rails server running in the background
-Used only Chrome browser(with 40-45 tabs up at any time)
-Keyboard brightness off
-Sound volume 5 empty boxes from maximum
I used my iphone stopwatch to keep track of time.
I work as a software engineer in silicon valley and it's primary use is web development. It's my only machine so it has to do double duty for personal work as well.
I worked doing web development and browsing for 5-6 hours while listening to music, youtube videos, 7 hours of sleep, and heavy web browsing and music for the remaining time.
From 100% - 0% my total time was: 10hrs 55minutes 55seconds!
At 10hrs 44min it told me I was on reserve power and it lasted another 13minutes before it finally went into sleep mode.
So it gave me 11 hours of battery life under normal use PLUS 7 hours of sleep mode. And this was my first charge on the battery...
Overall I'm very happy to have upgraded from my 2012 i7 8gb Air which at best would give me half of that battery life. I'm also excited because now I no longer have to carry my charger unless I'm going on a weekend trip!
I hope this helps you guys out there making a decision; the i7 battery life "hit" is completely worth the performance gain. Mavericks should prove even better battery life once it's released and if they didn't feel like such giant clumsy machines, my mind would entertain the idea of an 13" i7 Air just for the battery life prospects.
Thanks, -catalyst07
So for those of you who participated in the 2013 11" Air battery life thread I started, I want to say thank you. Your help led me to purchase an 11" i7 8gb with 256gb ssd.
Well my personal battery life results are in-
My setup---
-Brightness set to 6 filled boxes
-Bluetooth off
-Powernap off
-Rails server running in the background
-Used only Chrome browser(with 40-45 tabs up at any time)
-Keyboard brightness off
-Sound volume 5 empty boxes from maximum
I used my iphone stopwatch to keep track of time.
I work as a software engineer in silicon valley and it's primary use is web development. It's my only machine so it has to do double duty for personal work as well.
I worked doing web development and browsing for 5-6 hours while listening to music, youtube videos, 7 hours of sleep, and heavy web browsing and music for the remaining time.
From 100% - 0% my total time was: 10hrs 55minutes 55seconds!
At 10hrs 44min it told me I was on reserve power and it lasted another 13minutes before it finally went into sleep mode.
So it gave me 11 hours of battery life under normal use PLUS 7 hours of sleep mode. And this was my first charge on the battery...
Overall I'm very happy to have upgraded from my 2012 i7 8gb Air which at best would give me half of that battery life. I'm also excited because now I no longer have to carry my charger unless I'm going on a weekend trip!
I hope this helps you guys out there making a decision; the i7 battery life "hit" is completely worth the performance gain. Mavericks should prove even better battery life once it's released and if they didn't feel like such giant clumsy machines, my mind would entertain the idea of an 13" i7 Air just for the battery life prospects.
Thanks, -catalyst07
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