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Battery Life went from 7 hours to 3 after Mountain Lion

TSE

TSE

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Did a Clean Install of Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro that was previously running Snow Leopard.

Running just Safari with Flashblock I used to get 7 hours. Now I get 3.

Does it take time to adjust and calibrate? Or is something wrong? Or has Apple yet to fix this confirmed issue?
 
TSE

TSE

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Updated to 10.8.2.

This is seriously ridiculous. Any solutions?

Activity monitor really only shows Finder taking up CPU as it takes up 9.1%.
 
Krazy Bill

Krazy Bill

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My wife is still complaining about her battery life on the MBP. And since she just came from a $325 2008 Dell that's pretty sad. :(

Note to Apple: Let's keep making these machines razor thin AT ALL COSTS and keep deluding ourselves we can cram more battery life inside them.
 
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Silmarien

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I used to get 6 on my brand new 2012 cMBP with 10.8.1. Then updated to 10.8.2 and it went down almost two hours. I get around 4 hours depending on the use. I'm really frustrated cause I got a macbook mainly due to its battery longevity for school.
 
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