13" Macbook Pro Battery Issue ?

[Mx34u]

My brand new Macbook Pro 13" battery seems to go super fast (3hrs) and Im just surfing the web. Also it charged all night and day but doesn't hit 100% it was 98% or so. Maybe my imagination but my other older Macbook 15" held a charge a lot longer. Thanks!

 

[spinnerlys]

There are lots and lots of threads about this, so please search before you post something that has been posted several times already.
MRoogle is quite a good tool to search this forums.


http://www.google.com/cse?cx=011016...e:forums.macrumors.com&hl=en&as_qdr=all&meta=

http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&...G=Search&cx=011016119145480959114:kuv1aq0hily


http://www.apple.com/batteries/
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1490
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446

 

[Wehrwolf]

While you might be "just" browsing the web, if there is any Flash content in the pages you visit, your battery life will take a nosedive.

In short, Flash behaves like a PoS and is a massive resource hog under OS X.

 

[Mx34u]

While you might be "just" browsing the web, if there is any Flash content in the pages you visit, your battery life will take a nosedive.

In short, Flash behaves like a PoS and is a massive resource hog under OS X.

I have flash disabled as its the scum of the internet I installed a 128GB SSD if that makes any difference.

 

[Wehrwolf]

Screen brightness? I usually get the best battery run time out of my MBP when I set it to less than 50%.

Otherwise your battery info looks pretty good - you've got a healthy battery.

Do the calibration, since it's brand new, and see if that helps.

 

[1BadMac]

My SSD actually seemed to give a minor improvement in my battery life. I also switched from memory leak nation (i.e. Firefox & Safari) to Chrome. I can consistently get over 6 hours.

Have you watched your activity monitor to see if you have any rogue background processes performing activity? Also, are you starting up a bunch of programs?

On the SSD, I did implement the NOATIME so it would not keep writing out that time stamp.

I also keep my screen brightness to 1-3 bars in most cases.