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MacBook Pro Users Express Concerns About Limited Battery Life
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Why spread misinformation? If reports are true then the new point update for Sierra does indeed dramatically improve battery life.
To be fair, the much faster SSD and TB3 is also as relevant as CPU advances to most uses, they will not notice a practical day to day advantage, these are small incremental improvements, it's only people benchmarking gloating about SSD speed, and like previous generations of MacBooks almost no one uses THunderbolt, and if they do, they don't reach the limits.
The ones choose to....Like I have tried , frankly it's still bandwidth limited, so maybe TB4 is the real deal, TB3 is not future proof if it's limiting performace at present , I've tried a razer core and TB3 lost me about 15% performance...promising tech...
basically, smoke and mirrors.
Let us grant them that yes chrome uses up its fair share of resources. And your share and my share lol. This would be indicative of what happens when a system is used more. Inb4 but its wasted use. Lets pretend this is actually useful work. its the same result...you aren't getting the mythical battery life they offered.
When you have power ratings measured in least work possible...its not a good thing imo. Especially when apple is using this as a determinant for features to not include. Arise 32 gb dead horse...arise lol.
Cause I'm using one at present.
I can get 9 hours battery life or I can get 3 hours , depends on the tasks and setting of my MacBook.
If people getting poor battery life, dropped the brightness of thier screen...quickest fix ever...
The fact is I use mine for intensive CPU tasks, and at load the new CPU uses the same power as the old, and with the battery some 30% smaller, I am getting that much less battery .....
If software changes settings to get more battery great, the fundamental issue here is a smaller battery though.
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Amen. I bought a refurb 2015 max unit at the same time as the 2016, £1000 price differnce. Keeping the refurb, very good Machine, the 2016 is going back , I share your thoughts on it .
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A few months ago I bought a mid-2015 MBP 13" as my everyday computer. It's the fastest machine I've ever owned, has a decent retina screen, decent sound, is light and has lots of ports for my legacy accessories. I couldn't be happier. That said, it's not quite as svelte as the new ones, but I paid €1399 EUROS for it instead of the comparable €1699 for the new one including the early adopter tax. One day, I will enjoy a revision B or C of the current machine. After all, the mid-2015s went through a couple of changes after it was launched, too, so nothing is forever.
Yeah I bought the 2012 model at launch, wish I waited a year, nice improvements in the next rev
I agree but he's right about the hardware. Apple went for batteries 20-25% smaller than the last generation. Simply inexcusable.
Macbook Pro late 2016 15 inch 2.6 i7 and 4GB VRAM. Just got mine yesterday. At 100% percent it said 7,5 hours remaining... But now 1,5 hours later it is still 7,5 hours remaining. This is still the first charge ever so I guess that it will improve in the next couple of days. 80 % brightness and using outlook and safari for browsing.
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Unfortunately, Kaby Lake's CPU appears to consume even more power than the Skylake CPUs in the current MBPs. One can only hope AMD can pull a rabbit out of its hat with Zen.
As a coder and web developer speaking: because it is holding back the evolution of the web, especially the mobile web. Consumers don't really care about this, but after a couple of years, it is going to bite them too - like in the naughts when a lot of forward-looking features could not really be used due to IE's dominance. Now Apple is holding the web hostage since they do not allow any other browser on their iDevices.
I am not pulling this out of my ass, here's current desktop browser compliance in an overview. Can you spot the one browser trailing ALL others? Scroll down to "timeline" and see how it used to be different with Safari in a top place till about 2012.
Surely, it is better on tablets due to Windows Mobile being such a joke? Nope
Maybe phones? the iPhone is Apple's money-maker after all? You guessed it at that point
Apple does not attend developer conferences, it takes no feedback, it just sits there and lets the browser languish. Google split their Chrome sources from WebKit because Apple did not work with them anymore.
If you got some time, go read this article why Apple's browser is universally hated by the people who have to work with it. Or this reply which is a bit more measured but also very concerned.
It's real fun to read the experts here blabbing about the code quality of Chrome (as if they could code their way out of their bed) instead of realizing that Safari might offer bling and integrate with iCloud, but rests on rotting foundations.
Have had my 13" for a week. Had to pull out my 'old' 2014 MBP 15" today to do a couple of things with it before it goes up for sale. It felt like a giant elephant laptop. Not gonna miss it.
Oh, and before I forget - all of you pretend Apple fanboys who moan on here to no end just because you like to moan, go buy a Surface or something and move over to the Microsoft forums and moan over there
Oh, and before I forget - all of you pretend Apple fanboys who moan on here to no end just because you like to moan, go buy a Surface or something and move over to the Microsoft forums and moan over there
"Currently I'm powering a 1080p external monitor and casually browsing with Chrome. At full charge, I'm getting an estimate of 3 hours battery life. With gaming it's even less"
Although I still think this Macbook Pro was a miss all around, this is absolutely not what a laptop on battery is intended to do.
Although I still think this Macbook Pro was a miss all around, this is absolutely not what a laptop on battery is intended to do.
This type of moaning is just about as common as the other kind of moaning you're moaning about.
The point is, your post is no better.
Jep ... lasts until 95% battery life.. after this 5-6h remaining
You didn't get my real answer.
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"major battery-life issues" - software related. They need to get Sierra in order. My reinstall fixed my issues.
"that removed a feature everybody wanted" - what feature?
"three quarters of the useful ports removed" - I only ever use USB-A and rarely. Only when copying photos from my camera, or backing up my machine. USB-A to USB-C cable purchased. Done. And it's faster. And more USB ports than my 2010 MBP. And I can plug in my power on either side.
I do agree with magsafe. They better create an official solution for that.
Word. I use CF in my pro camera, so I need a reader no matter what - or at least a usb cable.
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4 hours of 1080p video doesn't seem bad. Also, does gfxStatus work on these? I swore I read it was buggy on the new ones. I uninstalled it.
Trying to troll? It's hours, I'm honestly not sure what people are talking about with low battery life. Of course if you use it more heavily it won't meet their benchmarks.
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Why are people using 3rd party to force graphics? It's an option in system preferences already. **edit** oh never mind! I thought y'all were referring to dedicated graphics. My bad.
I'm at 82% charge, mid-level brightness, on a 460 pro. I'm literally just browsing the forums (i.e. I ONLY have Safari open, and 1 tab (right at this moment writing this))... it says 3 hours 47 min remaining... WTF?