right now i have the brightness down to the lowest setting and only have firefox open. i have a 76% charge remaining and the battery meter is telling i have 1:42 left. i have a late 2008 unibody macbook pro. before snow leopard i could consistently get 3 hours of battery life with wifi on and 4 hours with no wifi. after snow leopard i cant get beyond 2 hours even with wifi off and no programs running. has anyone with a late 2008 mbp experienced bad battery life?
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battery is horrible under snow leopard (solved)
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Download coconut battery. This a free application and it will tell your the health of your battery. If it is poor and you have apple care, kindly ask them to replace it for you.
I wonder why that might be? OpenCL is more energy demanding to run? I thought SL was suppose to be more efficient, thus, required less power to operate?
What's using OpenCL again?
Losing about 30 minutes of life under Snow Leopard seems to be par for the course.
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That isn't anything new. It's even worse under Snow Leopard unless you use Firefox or run Safari in 32-bit mode.
so i reset the smc and have gained 2+ hours of battery life immediately after doing this.
follow these instructions if you have unusually low battery life after switching to snow leopard:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
follow these instructions if you have unusually low battery life after switching to snow leopard:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411