(11-inch, to clarify)
It seemed before when I tested my battery, my computer would read its % life going down pretty fast. I'd hit 90% (from 100%) in about 15 minutes. Which amounts to (if held true through the entire charge) a 2 hour and 30 minute battery lifespan.
Now I've been testing again:
- 35-40% brightness (switching between 5 & 6 bars brightness level)
- backlit off
- app store in background
- constantly browsing
- 1/3 of the time (exactly 10 minutes out of every 30 minutes) running a youtube video
I get just under 12% battery discharge over 30 minutes (rounded to the nearest quarter percent I'd say about 11.75% based on watching the % drop and time move). 10% would be exactly 5 hours. Pretty decent.
Overall I'm much more happy with the battery life. The battery life counter absolutely blows though. It's reading 5 hours and 23 minutes left on my battery, with 86% charge remaining. I know in a couple minutes it will likely drop down to 3 hours and 56 minutes, or something like that.
Would anyone else like to share their battery life observations? Start from a certain percent (I started at 98%), and start at a certain given time, and record your battery life over say 30 minutes / 60 minutes / 120 minutes, etc, etc. I'm testing through right now (since I'm within a 2 week return period and just want to be 100% sure everything is proper... which it appears to be).
I still wish they could manage to put the Macbook Air 13-inch battery into the 11-inch!!!
It seemed before when I tested my battery, my computer would read its % life going down pretty fast. I'd hit 90% (from 100%) in about 15 minutes. Which amounts to (if held true through the entire charge) a 2 hour and 30 minute battery lifespan.
Now I've been testing again:
- 35-40% brightness (switching between 5 & 6 bars brightness level)
- backlit off
- app store in background
- constantly browsing
- 1/3 of the time (exactly 10 minutes out of every 30 minutes) running a youtube video
I get just under 12% battery discharge over 30 minutes (rounded to the nearest quarter percent I'd say about 11.75% based on watching the % drop and time move). 10% would be exactly 5 hours. Pretty decent.
Overall I'm much more happy with the battery life. The battery life counter absolutely blows though. It's reading 5 hours and 23 minutes left on my battery, with 86% charge remaining. I know in a couple minutes it will likely drop down to 3 hours and 56 minutes, or something like that.
Would anyone else like to share their battery life observations? Start from a certain percent (I started at 98%), and start at a certain given time, and record your battery life over say 30 minutes / 60 minutes / 120 minutes, etc, etc. I'm testing through right now (since I'm within a 2 week return period and just want to be 100% sure everything is proper... which it appears to be).
I still wish they could manage to put the Macbook Air 13-inch battery into the 11-inch!!!
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