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Less battery life in Lion?

tbobmccoy

tbobmccoy

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I've only got Safari up right now, and my battery life seems to be dropping drastically since I upgraded it. I'm slightly concerned. Does anyone seem to have this problem? Anyone have an idea what I can do to fix it? My Mac is the one in the profile ('09 MBP, 3.06ghz, 4gb RAM, 9600mGT (though the 9400m is on)).
 
tbobmccoy said:
I've only got Safari up right now, and my battery life seems to be dropping drastically since I upgraded it. I'm slightly concerned. Does anyone seem to have this problem? Anyone have an idea what I can do to fix it? My Mac is the one in the profile ('09 MBP, 3.06ghz, 4gb RAM, 9600mGT (though the 9400m is on)).
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Has spotlight finished indexing the volume?
 
mrapplegate said:
Has spotlight finished indexing the volume?
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Yup, even backed up my TM volume and unplugged it once it was finished. I think I'm getting a bit better of battery life now... but it still seems like I'm under what I used to be at with SL.
 
I have the same MBP (only with 8GB Ram and 2 ssd:s) ... spotlight is disabled
I´m also slightly concerned, doing the same stuff as before on SnowLeo my battery drained way too fast... 😕 maybe a new calibration is needed but this doesnt look good at all
 
tbobmccoy said:
Yup, even backed up my TM volume and unplugged it once it was finished. I think I'm getting a bit better of battery life now... but it still seems like I'm under what I used to be at with SL.
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You should not see much of a change. Usage is about the same as in SL.
 
Fabricman112 said:
I have the same MBP (only with 8GB Ram and 2 ssd:s) ... spotlight is disabled
I´m also slightly concerned, doing the same stuff as before on SnowLeo my battery drained way too fast... 😕 maybe a new calibration is needed but this doesnt look good at all
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How fast? I'm seeing the same.
 
I think I probably need a calibration after further investigation. It seems slightly less, but I think only time will tell if it actually is worse.
 
dont know how fast... yet
after the Lion-install I unplugged the charger, did some heavy usage 95-100% cpu for some time... 🙂 didnt feel like a long time though, next time I looked at the battery icon it showed 77%...
I´ll have to look into this later, maybe it´s just a feeling
 
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