Macbook pro 2009 battery life

[AndrewR23]

I have been using it today for only about 2 hours for internet only and its at 55%. is this normal at all??

 

[iBookG4user]

Are you viewing flash content on the web?

 

[AndrewR23]

no the only things ive been doing are macrumors, apple support, yahoo, espn, google.

 

[Hexero]

Those pages, especially espn and I'm sure yahoo too has Flash ads up. Install Click-to-flash, and see if anything gets better. With that program you can click on a flash content anytime you want it to load. I got like some hours better battery life with this program!

 

[Pax]

Depends on what you're doing and brightness of screen. I typically get 4 hours in total even with ClicktoFlash enabled. But it can be much more if the screen is at 1/2 brightness. In some ways Safari is a worse culprit than programs like Word and Excel. Even animated GIFs use quite a lot of CPU.

So what you see seems pretty normal.

 

[aeboi]

playing a flash video cut my battery life by more than 1/2

lets go html5