2010 MacBook Pro 720p video battery life?

[Pezerinno]

Hi,

I have to go to hospital later this week for chemotherapy and was wondering how many hours I can expect to run 720p video full screen for on a single charge? This is on a 13" 2010 macbook pro.

Many thanks

 

[adnoh]

According to apple, 10 hours.

 

[Bending Pixels]

If you're watching DVD's or downloaded video, realistically you should expect a good 4 1/2 - 5 hours

 

[GGJstudios]

...how many hours I can expect to run 720p video full screen for on a single charge? This is on a 13" 2010 macbook pro.

According to apple, 10 hours.

That's not true. Apple doesn't claim 10 hours for watching video:
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features.html

The wireless productivity test measures battery life by wirelessly browsing various websites and editing text in a word processor document with display brightness set to the middle setting.

This should answer most, if not all, of your battery questions:

Apple Notebook Battery FAQ​

 

[mbmobile]

If you're watching DVD's or downloaded video, realistically you should expect a good 4 1/2 - 5 hours

I can confirm this estimation. Just turn off anything you'll not need, like keyboard backlight, bluetooth, wifi, put screen backlight to a reasonable value and you can get around 5 hours.

Tested playing MKVs using VLC.

Good luck.

 

[Pezerinno]

I can confirm this estimation. Just turn off anything you'll not need, like keyboard backlight, bluetooth, wifi, put screen backlight to a reasonable value and you can get around 5 hours.

Tested playing MKVs using VLC.

Good luck.

Just what I wanted to know as that is what I'll be using.

Thanks everyone.