Which software is your battery sucker? It could be a process running in the background that is not yet optimized for Sierra. E.g. Adobe lets a lot of things run in the background. Or if you use Chrome for browsing, it can eat up a lot of battery quickly, depending how you configured it.
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10.12.2 fixed battery life on my 13" MBPr TB
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Which software is your battery sucker? It could be a process running in the background that is not yet optimized for Sierra. E.g. Adobe lets a lot of things run in the background. Or if you use Chrome for browsing, it can eat up a lot of battery quickly, depending how you configured it.
Interesting. Both new installs... the NTB should be ahead by 20%, given 10% larger battery and lower power CPU
I checked again a few minutes ago after closing Adobe photoshop and Indesign. Now I have 9 hours and 37 minutes remaining (87% battery left). I'm quite happy actually.
That's interesting. That's telling us is they are drawing the exact same power if you factor in the 10% larger battery in the ntb. This is what I would hope for since there is no reason to use different cpu speeds during streaming. Hallelujah. Maybe this thread will finally slowly die. If tb owners CONSISTENTLY get within an hour or two of ntb without any massaging, all of the bitchers and moaners might find something else on the MBP 16 to pick on!
I have Battery Health 1. I might get 2. Does BH2 allow you to dock in the menu bar like coconut?
Yes + It is integrating in sidebar as a "widget" - you can see battery time estimate since Apple remove it + it's showing up in touchbar too
Just downloaded. I was not very clear in my question. I was looking for the watts stats on the menu bar like coconut. It doesn't look it has that.
Same here…
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My mistake - its there now.
It hasn't changed mine too much, but then again mine was good before. I'm seeing between 11-13 hours with 95% remaining right now; screen brightness at 50%; Outlook, Messages, Safari, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and everything else going.
No complaints here.
No complaints here.
Ran the peacekeeper test at 65% brightness for an hour with a break at 28 minutes. At first, the NTB dropped to 97% while the TB to 88%. Huge difference. Then I closed safari and let the laptops cool down for a few minutes. Opened back up and NTB at 96, TB 87. After 32 minutes, NTB at 86%, TB at 76%. That means they're within 1% of one another in the second half of the test. Initially, the TB mac drained excessively but resolved itself when I put it to sleep. Not sure what was causing it. I'll run the test for a few more hours and I'll update when I do.
if a power usage of 5W on a 13" is good for 10ish hours battery life. Whats the ideal usage for a 15" ?
I just installed Battery Health 2 and its saying I'm using 18w on the desktop with screen 75% and nothing else running. It says I have 4hr 30mins left which is pretty consistent with what I've experienced today. (before yesterday macOS update I was getting around 3hrs)
Side note: I wonder how many others with battery problems have creative cloud installed? even without it in the menu bar I noticed its running a bunch of processes which were activating my discreete GPU. Once I killed them I was back on integrated. Not sure whether it was a specific process of a combination but they were:
Adobe Desktop Service
CCXProcess
Core Sync
CCLibrary
Edit - just saw the post with screen shot above. Wow. I clearly have something eating power.
I just installed Battery Health 2 and its saying I'm using 18w on the desktop with screen 75% and nothing else running. It says I have 4hr 30mins left which is pretty consistent with what I've experienced today. (before yesterday macOS update I was getting around 3hrs)
Side note: I wonder how many others with battery problems have creative cloud installed? even without it in the menu bar I noticed its running a bunch of processes which were activating my discreete GPU. Once I killed them I was back on integrated. Not sure whether it was a specific process of a combination but they were:
Adobe Desktop Service
CCXProcess
Core Sync
CCLibrary
Edit - just saw the post with screen shot above. Wow. I clearly have something eating power.
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That's funny (not for you I know). Now the conspiracy theorists will come out saying it was intentional to make the 16 look better in comparison. Here we go again.
Same here it finally arrived in between posts. Just updated it. I don't see any difference in battery life so far, but need to do a full cycle.
