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How is the battery life on your Ivy-Bridge rMBP after Mavericks update?

  • Improved!

    Votes: 6 54.5%
  • Much the same

    Votes: 2 18.2%
  • Worse!

    Votes: 3 27.3%

  • Total voters
    11

tmanto02

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Jun 5, 2011
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I wanted to create this poll to gauge overall battery-life on ivy-bridge rMBPs after mavericks update.

I used my 13" rMBP at uni today for about 6 hrs all up and it still says 2:53 remaining, definite improvement from Mountain Lion.


How does yours perform?
 
I wanted to create this poll to gauge overall battery-life on ivy-bridge rMBPs after mavericks update.

I used my 13" rMBP at uni today for about 6 hrs all up and it still says 2:53 remaining, definite improvement from Mountain Lion.


How does yours perform?
I am not sure yet.

I have 13in rMBP with i7 2.9ghz with 512SSD. AT 100% I am reading 5hr 21min remaining

It sure seems yesterday the battery drained slower but I did not use down to 10%. I went from like 100% to 80%
 
My 15" rMBP 2.6/16gb/512 (purchased refurb from Apple in 6/2013) definitely increased battery life with Mavericks. Yesterday I was able to run it for 11 HOURS!
NOTE: That's with display at around 60% brightness, keyboard backlight off, GFX status set to INTEGRATED ONLY, all the while running Safari, Mail, and Pixelmator (simultaneously about 50% of the time) along with occasional brief sessions on iTunes (It was actually 12 hours, but I deducted the 1 hour it was in Sleep mode).
 
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