2012 Retina Macbook Pro Users: How's your battery life now?

[Woodcrest64]

For those who own a 2012 Retina Macbook Pro how many hours on 'average' are you getting on your battery now?

 

[reery]

I've bought my rMBP in Sept. 2012, this is now 1y and 8 months ago.

The battery life is still remarkably good after around 200 cycles I still got 7 to 10 hours in OS X and 4 to 6 hours in Boot Camp. I think it's just a 3-5% decrease since the beginning.

If this rate continues, the replacement battery will be due after about 4-5 years if nothing else fails.

My Dell laptop from work has decreased its battery life from 4-5 hours to 3 hours after one year.

 

[emporiky]

Is the iStat battery health accurate? It is showing 100%/99% for my rMBP 2012 which seems quite a lot for almost two years old laptop. Otherwise I am getting around 6-7 hours of heavy use, including videos, safari, music 🙂

 

[Barney63]

Is the iStat battery health accurate? It is showing 100%/99% for my rMBP 2012 which seems quite a lot for almost two years old laptop. Otherwise I am getting around 6-7 hours of heavy use, including videos, safari, music 🙂

That sounds about right for a 100% 2012 machine, that is what you would have got out of it originally.

Barney

 

[di1in]

I've bought my rMBP in Sept. 2012, this is now 1y and 8 months ago.

The battery life is still remarkably good after around 200 cycles I still got 7 to 10 hours in OS X and 4 to 6 hours in Boot Camp. I think it's just a 3-5% decrease since the beginning.

If this rate continues, the replacement battery will be due after about 4-5 years if nothing else fails.

My Dell laptop from work has decreased its battery life from 4-5 hours to 3 hours after one year.

Any idea how much a replacement costs? I had my 2012 retinambp's battery replaced under apple care and they swapped the entire bottom chassis for it.

 

[tivoboy]

I think Apple charges 199$. It replaces the battery and the lid with the trackpad. You can do it yourself for about 60$ off eBay and 1'hourmof time and patience. The task is not for the faint of heart though

 

[reery]

Now after 4 years and 4 months I still haven't replaced the battery. 85% with 315 cycles. Lasts around 7-8h browsing and 3-5h on more demanding usage. They'll charge $199 and replace the whole top case including trackpad and keyboard. Although mine looks and types like new after 4 years of heavy usage.

For comparison: My Dell laptop has already a replacement battery and this one is at <70% lasting me 45 minutes max after 1.5 years.

Don't buy batteries from ebay, they are far away from the quality Apple offers.

 

[SilvaGT]

Macbook Pro Retina 2012 15" with basic configuration. 487 cycle, working about 3-4 hours but I always use GT650 graphics (Because of this annoying bug with graphic switching).