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Battery Life ?
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Mind explaining this further? 10 hours and 63% left seems unbelievable to me. Not trying to be a jerk, but just wondering.
I run nothing intensive. I read mostly. I don't run benchmarks while on battery and have no more than 5 tabs open with Safari. I browse pictures on Photos, occasionally playing videos. I seldom play videos on a browser. I just read, read, read.
It's totally believable. In my case all that battery is driving is the screen. The rest of the computer is mostly asleep.
Edit: And you don't have 2x electric motors driving fans at minimum 2000rpm.
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I see. That's phenomenal. Still very hard to believe, but I do not doubt your word. Will have to give it a try on my MBr. Thanks for the additional info!
To early for me to tell, since I am on the road and dropbox is still downloading ****. But I am thinking 7-8 hours battery from early impressions, not great, but okay.
Thanks. Good to know. This is how I'll use mine with some occasional iMovie and Sketchup.
I forgot to mention the keyboard backlight. While I do use it, I have it go off after 10 seconds.
You will get lots of opinions about Li batteries but I think that the expert consensus is that running them down lower than ~1/3 is not good for the battery. It helps the software to calibrate the battery runtime/% charged so you may feel like you've improved battery performance, but that's not the same thing. I would charge it up fully out of the box.