Battery not working well 17 unibody

[precator]

My battery only lasts about 2.5 hours every time. I only have 7 cycles. Anyone else experiencing bad battery life?

 

[5280m]

i dont have a 17 inch unibody, but i had a similar problem with my 13" unibody. Take it to an apple store and they should take care of you.

 

[youssefm]

it depends on what your running, if you have bluetooth on, backlight on 100% brightness, and like 5 intensive applications then maybe its normal, if you have backlight like 50% and your only running safari for example, then no, somethings wrong

 

[precator]

just safari and parallels and in parallels just some development stuff but everything is light, nothing intensive..

 

[martinmartin]

just safari and parallels and in parallels just some development stuff but everything is light, nothing intensive..

parallels is most likely your problem. try running the comp without parallels and i bet your battery life nearly doubles...

let us know.

 

[Consultant]

Your problems:
Virtual machine
Browsers with flash content

 

[VSMacOne]

Yeah, Parallels should not eat up that much battery. I mean, 2.5 hours is what you get on a MacBook running stuff like that. With that new behemoth of a battery, you should be getting closer to 4 or 5 at least.
Take it back and get a replacement..

 

[Runt888]

I would be tempted to point the finger at Parallels also, but there is another post on here with someone who gets about 5 hours while running VMWare, plus Photoshop and and whole mess of other programs.

I would take it back and see about getting the battery replaced.

 

[precator]

is this normal for my 17?

Full charge capacity (mAh): 12673