Work bought me a brand new MBP 15" about 3 months ago. It's basically used when i'm out in the field or if i need to work remote. So it's not my normal day to day machine
When i first got it i was so impressed with the battery life. I would see like 4 to 5 hours when fully charged which for me was a big plus, commuting over an hour a day via train i could get a lot of work done.
SO to the problem. About a week ago I started noticing the battery life was draining quite fast once disconnected from power. This being my first mac book i started looking around to see if i could find something that would make sense of this depleting battery life. In short I didn't find anything. Power consumption is set up for minimal power draw when disconnected from power (see screen shot below).
I usually have a few programs running for work but ones i wouldn't think would be drawing that much battery life.
- browser
- securecrt
- terminal
- textedit
Question: before closing the lid (putting it to sleep) on the MBP should i be quitting the programs? Once a sleep does it draw down on the batter?
Additional input that might be relevant is that i have parallels installed (but not running as far as i can see) as well as MS Office 2011
Anyone that can assist would be greatly appreciated. If i can't figure this out i'm going to have to go back to apple with this as my company spent a pretty penny on this and we should be getting more battery life out of this.
thanks
When i first got it i was so impressed with the battery life. I would see like 4 to 5 hours when fully charged which for me was a big plus, commuting over an hour a day via train i could get a lot of work done.
SO to the problem. About a week ago I started noticing the battery life was draining quite fast once disconnected from power. This being my first mac book i started looking around to see if i could find something that would make sense of this depleting battery life. In short I didn't find anything. Power consumption is set up for minimal power draw when disconnected from power (see screen shot below).
I usually have a few programs running for work but ones i wouldn't think would be drawing that much battery life.
- browser
- securecrt
- terminal
- textedit
Question: before closing the lid (putting it to sleep) on the MBP should i be quitting the programs? Once a sleep does it draw down on the batter?
Additional input that might be relevant is that i have parallels installed (but not running as far as i can see) as well as MS Office 2011
Anyone that can assist would be greatly appreciated. If i can't figure this out i'm going to have to go back to apple with this as my company spent a pretty penny on this and we should be getting more battery life out of this.
thanks
