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82% on battery but only 2 hours 30 minutes remaining. WTF
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Quit making useless threads. Search MR. Search Google. You don't even give pertinent information. How do we know you're not on an iBook G3? It would be pretty good battery life for that machine.
7 weeks
brightness is 8 bars
keypad brightness is off
bluetooth is off
no file sharing
MACBOOK PRO , the new june edition... the one with 7 hours for battery life.
take a screen shot of it (coconut battery)
Command Shift 4 then Space bar
what id suggest isjust run down the battery on this usage. then charge it all the way up and use it on the power adapter for a day or so and then try again with just the battery for awhile.
you should get around 5.5Hrs ~ 7HRS
is this a baseline macbookpro 15"? the one with just the 9400 or does it have 9400+9600 graphics card?
cuz if its on the higher end card it may impede on the overall battery performance.
Command Shift 4 then Space bar
what id suggest isjust run down the battery on this usage. then charge it all the way up and use it on the power adapter for a day or so and then try again with just the battery for awhile.
you should get around 5.5Hrs ~ 7HRS
is this a baseline macbookpro 15"? the one with just the 9400 or does it have 9400+9600 graphics card?
cuz if its on the higher end card it may impede on the overall battery performance.
You still haven't answered the most important question ... how long have you been using it on battery?
So, you're on track to have about 4-5 hours on one charge using wifi, that's about average.
Check activity monitor. Make sure all processes is chosen at the top. Sort by CPU to see if anything is using more CPU than it should. Then sort by kind to make sure everything running is Intel.
Battery life is calculated in REAL TIME. Meaning you can have 82% battery life, and one minute it will say 2 hours left, next minute it will say 6 hours. Depending upon what your doing on the computer. Don't believe me? Run this test...
Step 1: Open Text Edit ONLY. Wait 5 minutes check battery calculation. Note time.
Step 2: Open Safari ONLY, run youtube videos continuously. Wait 5 minutes, check battery calculation while video is running. Note time.
This is common knowledge from the iBook days.
Step 1: Open Text Edit ONLY. Wait 5 minutes check battery calculation. Note time.
Step 2: Open Safari ONLY, run youtube videos continuously. Wait 5 minutes, check battery calculation while video is running. Note time.
This is common knowledge from the iBook days.
I am showing 1:18 minutes on mine now. Your lucky if you get any where near 3 hours on a Macbook Pro 15". They should have some long last ones with the 13" models out there.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Jan/09 17 inch model, with the 320 gb 7200 rpm hard drive. Running the 9400 graphics, and playing Civ 3 multiplayer inside of Parallels 4, bluetooth off, wifi on, screen brightness set to 40%, keyboard backlight off, and I am getting around 5 hours. Works for me, YMMV.
Tom
(play some flash inside internet explorer in parallels and the life dips down). Yer battery is ok.
Tom
Tom
(play some flash inside internet explorer in parallels and the life dips down). Yer battery is ok.
Tom
dude i got the macbook pro late 09 edition and i get 5 hours with full brightness on wifi, just make sure you calibrate the battery properly like apple say and you should be fine
It's flash. It's KILLING your battery life. I have clicktoflash, and I get over 5.5 hours of battery life while surfing as long as I'm not using flash. Once I enable flash content the battery life dives, closing the page with enabled flash content, my battery life returns to expected.
Adobe flash is god awful, avoid at all costs.
Adobe flash is god awful, avoid at all costs.
I was getting the same sort of performance (~2 hours) out of my brand new 13" uMBP
Activity Monitor showed Carbonite using 90% cpu constantly. Uninstalling that now give me 7-8 hours battery (unless iAntiVirus is doing a scan, in which case I kill the process...)
Activity Monitor is your friend ...
Activity Monitor showed Carbonite using 90% cpu constantly. Uninstalling that now give me 7-8 hours battery (unless iAntiVirus is doing a scan, in which case I kill the process...)
Activity Monitor is your friend ...
i have a 15" late 2008 uMBP 2.2ghz 2gb 250gb drive. 9400+9600 i get around 5hours on it using either or graphics card, using firefox, bluetooth off, wifi on, brightness half, illumination off, itunes running.
this is with a removable battery. about 50 cycle charges from February.
either got lucky with battery or you need to calibrate it a bit more and monitor your activity.
this is with a removable battery. about 50 cycle charges from February.
either got lucky with battery or you need to calibrate it a bit more and monitor your activity.