Lion on MBP is only 5 hours battery life?

[mark28]

50% brightness, msn client, safari surfing = only 5 hours?

 

[miles01110]

Normal.

 

[iLog.Genius]

Consider that Lion for the most part is a bit more taxing and compare it to what you were getting in Snow Leopard. If the times are not off by a lot, consider it normal.

 

[Srirama]

is it the 15 inch quadcore?
In that case thats great battery life

 

[mark28]

is it the 15 inch quadcore?
In that case thats great battery life

It's the 2010 15".

On Snow Leopard I had more battery life under the same usage though. Could get 6 hours.

 

[xDC]

My 2010 got a hit on battery life with lion also. 6-7 (SL) to about 5 (lion) like you said.

 

[Nielsenius]

I get around five hours on Lion, as well. Apple will continue to update the OS in order to fix bugs and add new/improve features. Maybe battery life will get better after an update or two.

 

[negativzero]

I'm still on 6-7h on Lion. Just make sure your discrete graphics is turned off and it'll be easy to hit that.