Macbook pro battery?

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hi, i just got a macbookpro yesterday and i thought the battery was great and i fully charged it yesterday evening and this morning i turn it in, and in a matter of 50 mins the battery is at 78%, and i was only downloading songs for itunes via vuze! is this normal or am i just freaking out...

will letting it deplete compelty help


Thanks, sorry for spelling in a rush

 

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Apple on notebook batteries
Apple Portable: Calibrating your computer's battery for best performance

MRoogle is also a good tool to search this board and might give one or two thousand threads discussing this issue.

Btw, Vuze might take up many CPU cycles, thus the battery is depleted faster. Look at Activity Monitor (SHOW ALL PROCESSES and sort by CPU) to see for yourself.



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Switch 101 - guide with articles made by Apple on how to accustom yourself, after you switched to Mac OS X from Windows​

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Mac Guides - tutorials, product guides and more​

MRoogle - a very effective tool to search these fora using Google and made available by edesignuk, introductory threads: 1, 2 and 3​