13' touch bar: 6 hours battery life...

[iasix]

Honestly if the touchbar RMB had a normal battery life, I'd take that one.
But I cancelled my order and went for the non-TB version. I'm happy with it now. I love it.

Especially after seeing the TB at the Apple Store. I used it for 10 minutes and I see so much potential, but right now it's just not where it's supposed to be. I'll get one in 2 years, when the TB models have a normal battery life too and the TB is a bit more matured out.

 

[skids929]

Rep at the Apple Store told me today to take Siri out of the TB area and that would stop it from running behind the scenes all the time. I don't know if this is a load of bologna or not but I am willing to try it out to see what happens. Apparently, according to him, it runs silently without you know no matter what you do since it's a part of Sierra. Personally I think this guy is wrong but I am piloting it now to see if there is any energy savings.

 

[ghanwani]

I would like to see side-by-side comparisons of touch bar vs non touch bar for the same use cases.

I'm still amazed by Apple's claim that a battery life of touch bar (smaller battery + higher wattage processor + touch bar) is same as battery life of non touch bar.

Maybe some savings from having an integrated SSD and newer/faster RAM??

 

[Impatientmac]

Rep at the Apple Store told me today to take Siri out of the TB area and that would stop it from running behind the scenes all the time. I don't know if this is a load of bologna or not but I am willing to try it out to see what happens. Apparently, according to him, it runs silently without you know no matter what you do since it's a part of Sierra. Personally I think this guy is wrong but I am piloting it now to see if there is any energy savings.

That is bologna, first thing I did was disable siri and remove it from the touchbar. Still getting 5 hrs at best

 

[skids929]

That is bologna, first thing I did was disable siri and remove it from the touchbar. Still getting 5 hrs at best

Thats what I figured. They know nothing about these machines at the store and know nothing about the battery issues. When I returned the 15 today the manager who rang me out 3 days earlier said whats the issue with it. I said it's too big for my needs and there are battery issues. I asked if anyone else has complained about it and said first he's heard about it. Understandable, they are new. I just said, you will hear soon trust me.

 

[fokmik]

seems the recommendation for battery issue for the all new MBP is the user is to make a SMC reset !!
so you buy your new MBP, do a SMC reset after setting it up

 

[skids929]

seems the recommendation for battery issue for the all new MBP is the user is to make a SMC reset !!
so you buy your new MBP, do a SMC reset after setting it up

Who recommended this?

 

[grennis]

Well of course there is a battery issue, your touchbar is 13 FEET long!

 

[fokmik]

Every user who did smc reset the battery is back to normal and all of us are getting 10-11 hours

 

[marcel500]

My battery is saying 40% equals to 0.58 min, I only run parallels (latest version) like what I have been doing since 5 years (on my old macbook air).... Something is clearly wrong.

13" TB version

 

[markusberger]

SMC reset doesn't "solve" the issue.

It simply resets the battery estimation. Which then just shows you an unrealistic estimate that is NOT based on actually using the machine on battery till it's empty.

Also, use a timer to see how long your battery actually lasts and don't rely on the estimation (especially if you reset the SMS, then the estimation is useless).

Come on people, a little logic here and there: claiming to "solve" the battery issue by reseting the estimation without actually using the battery and then saying "I reset SMC, the battery is at 100% and it shows I have 23h battery life" while in reality you have 5h....

 

[MattSeven]

SMC reset doesn't "solve" the issue.

It simply resets the battery estimation. Which then just shows you an unrealistic estimate that is NOT based on actually using the machine on battery till it's empty.

Also, use a timer to see how long your battery actually lasts and don't rely on the estimation (especially if you reset the SMS, then the estimation is useless).

Come on people, a little logic here and there: claiming to "solve" the battery issue by reseting the estimation without actually using the battery and then saying "I reset SMC, the battery is at 100% and it shows I have 23h battery life" while in reality you have 5h....

I think the argument is that people are plugging in when the battery is reading low, angry, but maybe their battery isnt really that low.

I believe there are some underperforming batteries out there. But maybe it's not as widespread and in some cases it's a lack of good info about how much charge is actually left vs. what the computer thinks is left.

 

[jclardy]

For all of the talk of how bright these new displays are, unless I crank it up to around 70% they actually seem noticeably dim to me. My iPad Pro 9.7" seems to more or less match the max brightness of the display. Am I missing something?

I feel the same way. I need to compare it to my old laptop but the brightness scale seems to be shifted to the right - so the left has a lot lower settings then when you are in the last 10% of the bar it shoots up to max. At max brightness it does seem excessively bright, but it seems to kill battery.

 

[emailnotebox]

SMC reset doesn't "solve" the issue.

It simply resets the battery estimation. Which then just shows you an unrealistic estimate that is NOT based on actually using the machine on battery till it's empty.

Also, use a timer to see how long your battery actually lasts and don't rely on the estimation (especially if you reset the SMS, then the estimation is useless).

Come on people, a little logic here and there: claiming to "solve" the battery issue by reseting the estimation without actually using the battery and then saying "I reset SMC, the battery is at 100% and it shows I have 23h battery life" while in reality you have 5h....

by doing smc reset and assuring themselves, people will waste time, and end up using their entire grace period and miss the chance to make a return.