5 Min after opening MBP15in I check activity monitor. Indexing?

[Noerdy]

I am greeted with a lovely 4 hours of battery life. As you can see, I am using pretty much 0 processor power. Slightly disapointing, but I am guessing this is just due to indexing. Can someone confirm this?

 

[xraydoc]

What does the CPU tab show?

 

[deany]

I would wait a few days to get the battery 'up to speed'.
Unless its essential try using Safari rather than Chrome (despite CR results) for initial testing.

 

[duervo]

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I am greeted with a lovely 4 hours of battery life. As you can see, I am using pretty much 0 processor power. Slightly disapointing, but I am guessing this is just due to indexing. Can someone confirm this?

It doesn't take very long to generate a spotlight index on an SSD for a brand new system (ie: spotlight energy impact in your screenshot is 0.0%.)

 

[rklinkhammer]

It doesn't take very long to generate a spotlight index on an SSD for a brand new system (ie: spotlight energy impact in your screenshot is 0.0%.)

Interesting -- I plugged mine in today when I first got it, let it fully charge while I worked installing software, and let it do whatever housekeeping tasks it needed. In response to this post, I disconnected my disk and blu-ray player and checked the battery life via activity monitor -- its saying about 11:30. As far as I can tell, nothing seems amiss and I am just loving this machine. So much faster and nicer than my Late 2008 MBP. Just waiting for the 5k monitor. However, TM is encrypting my backup, so I am going to reconnect it.