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2018 13 inch TB battery is worse than my 2013 Air with 1000+ cycles
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interesting.. my 2017 MacBook Pro 15" is also got only 4 to 5 hours only, much worse than my 2012 MacBook Air....
I think 4-5hours is what you can expect from your MBP.
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The battery life seems to be not good as previous generations
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The battery life seems to be not good as previous generations
but how come all the review are saying they have a good battery life...
""To power the extra cores and hungrier memory, Apple has added more battery. By virtue of some hocus-pocus, the overall weight didn't change, but the extra power is canceled out by the extra demand, so you end up with the same battery life as previous years. I get about a workday of web surfing and several hours of video editing and rendering."" <-- a workday??? including video editing?? are they kidding me???
If I start video editing, my new 2017 MacBook Pro lasts only 3.5 to 4 hours! since when is a workday = 4 hour?
""To power the extra cores and hungrier memory, Apple has added more battery. By virtue of some hocus-pocus, the overall weight didn't change, but the extra power is canceled out by the extra demand, so you end up with the same battery life as previous years. I get about a workday of web surfing and several hours of video editing and rendering."" <-- a workday??? including video editing?? are they kidding me???
If I start video editing, my new 2017 MacBook Pro lasts only 3.5 to 4 hours! since when is a workday = 4 hour?
Uh you're video editing dude. I wouldn't compare that to light browser usage.
no man, it's the review from iMore, it said in their review that "I get about a workday of web surfing and several hours of video editing and rendering"
What brightness are you averaging? The display is SO bright on these, it consumes tons of power above 75%.
Right now I have 91% battery remaining, and it's estimating 9 hours 42 minutes battery life remaining. So far, I have found the battery life on my 2018 13" MacBook Pro to be stellar.
Ok, so I'm not the only one experiencing that then. I've been getting between 6-7 hours of battery life, which is like 3-4 hours less than I got on my 2017 nTB MBP. I understand we have two more cores to power and, of course the Touch Bar, but if Apple advertises around 10 hours, it should be at or close to it, no?
I've only had this computer for about a week, so I guess I'll keep putting it through its paces to see if it improves.
I've only had this computer for about a week, so I guess I'll keep putting it through its paces to see if it improves.
Yep, reviewers seem to come up with very strange battery life stories. And iMore are shameless shills for Apple - their reviews aren’t worth the virtual paper they’re printed on.
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And what are you using it for to get those figures? I’m guessing nothing at all demanding...
I can get 10 hours of battery life if I leave my mbp idle and just checking the activity monitor. If I do real work then I expect 4-5 hours or even less. That’s the truth.
I've been getting 4 to 5 hours using a combination of X-code, Parallels, SPSS, Word, Excel, browsing and some Sketch. For me that's perfectly acceptable, but I've gotten used to my MBP2014 running out quickly due to a bad battery. If you expect 10 hours with some relatively intense workflows than probably this is not the right machine. I'm not sure how some of these review sites got to the amount of battery life they got to though.
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It's new, so I've been installing software, when I discovered the crypto_val errors. I wiped it and reinstalled the OS to eliminate the crypto_val errors... then did a couple hours of photoshop work...
Used my MBPro 15” for 7.5 hours on battery yesterday and it still showed 35% and 2 hours remaining.
Happy here.
Happy here.
Same here. I can code all day long on my 2018 15”. I’m running vs code, live-server, transmit, multiple browsers, etc. Even when I have illustrator open to edit some files I still get all day battery life ~9 hours. It has been fantastic.
Yep, my day consisted of some AutoCad work, a bit of Photoshop and the balance was in Quickbooks. It has way more battery than I need, I seldom do 7 to 8 hours on my laptop but found it very capable.
Seriously. I was very concerned about the battery life when I bought it (release weekend), with thinking that the extra two cores and ddr4 ram would chew through it, but I have been very pleased with it. And, with the new updates to Mojave allowing you to tell it to run an app with the dedicated card (I’m hoping also without), I’ll be able to get even more battery life out of it. With just editing svgs, or creating some wireframes, I don’t need illustrator to really utilize the dGPU.
I thought there was a way in illustrator to turn it off, but I can’t recall.