Battery Life went from 7 hours to 3 after Mountain Lion

[TSE]

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?

 

[peskaa]

Updated to 10.8.2? This helped solve the battery issue.

 

[669532]

Mine has remained close to constant over: 10.7, 10.8, 10.8.1, 10.8.2...

 

[AppleWarMachine]

Whaaat? 😱...I get a full 2 hours on mine! 😀

 

[TSE]

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]

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.

 

[Silmarien]

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.

 

[TSE]

Are there any solutions? Otherwise I just wasted $20 and am reverting back to Snow Leopard...

 

[yusukeaoki]

10.8.2 and I still get around 5 hours of battery life.