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New MacBook Pro Users Report Improved Battery Life on macOS 10.12.2
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Well that's great news. I do miss my time estimated though, even if it was inaccurate. If I saw I had 90% battery life and only have it say I have 2 hours left, I knew I was doing something that was eating the battery FAST.
Sigh, oh well.
Sigh, oh well.
This article is stupid. It's a subjective matter. Battery life determines what and how you use it. What apps are being used? If it was editing, you would expect the mac to die with 4-5 hrs.
If people are getting better battery life then that's fantastic. But if power-saving features were added, this would have been mentioned in the release notes.
Did people not read the article? Seems like the power consumption was actually down. Maybe it got that low before and they didn't notice, but it doesn't sound like just "placebo effect." Who are the real sheep around here?
I often wonder how many of these "poor battery life" complaints are due to Spotlight indexing all the new stuff that just got dumped onto the machine when people upgrade to a new laptop, and then when spotlight is done doing its thing, battery life goes back to normal.. which may coincidentally coincide with a minor OS update.
Because they're using apps which tell them how much battery life is left and its changed.
More importantly, at idle, half the wattage is being used - so something has been fixed.
Meanwhile engineers in Cupertino are spitting out their coffee in laughter at this because they changed nothing affecting power consumption...
#placeboeffect
They removed the "time remaining" status though.
I don't know why Apple can't just admit there was a problem. They are so secretive about issues with their products.
NO ONE IS PERFECT. It's okay to admit there is a problem and fix it. It's even better to tell users "We are aware of this issue and a fix is coming." Heck, that would reduce anxiety, knowing your problem will be fixed soon, instead of lingering for months.
NO ONE IS PERFECT. It's okay to admit there is a problem and fix it. It's even better to tell users "We are aware of this issue and a fix is coming." Heck, that would reduce anxiety, knowing your problem will be fixed soon, instead of lingering for months.
Well it goes without saying that the release notes only contain important and good news. Better battery life = important and good. I don't think removing the battery indicator does.
I often wonder how many of these "poor battery life" complaints are due to Spotlight indexing all the new stuff that just got dumped onto the machine when people upgrade to a new laptop, and then when spotlight is done doing its thing, battery life goes back to normal.. which may coincidentally coincide with a minor OS update.
Not just spotlight these days either, migration assistant for transferring, iCloud drive for downloading and syncing documents, icloud for all the contacts/bookmarks/settings, Photos does it's facial and object recognition on a per machine basis so there's also that - and probably 3rd party tools like Dropbox etc syncing for the first time at the start (even if its just to check its got all the files it needs on the new system)
Just unplugged, 100% battery remaining!
It's magical!
It's magical!
Stop it, you're scaring me..... and RAM has been throttled to 4GB and nowhere to be found in Activity Monitor
So battery size has to stay the same forever to get equal or better battery life? Nothing else is involved?How can Apple fix having smaller batteries?
Funny thing is, Apple thought that estimate was accurate enough for the longest time to keep that feature, even after App Nap and whatever energy saving features were introduced.
Only after users began (rightfully, as I might notice) complain that Apple's claims regarding the new rMBPs battery life were plain and simply wrong, they suddenly decide to remove it. Strange coincidence.
Quality comments on here
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Really?
Haha, yep. Now everyone who flipped their lid and returned it in an angry storm are like...humm, may have over-reacted a bit. Damn, that was a really nice machine. Ugh....then they return to posting all things skeptical and negative to balance their emotions out and make them feel better.
Smartest post all week. We have some wackos commenting on the front page here
What's wrong with posting the truth? If you're a true customer of a company, and not an EMPLOYEE of Apple, you probably wont even say something like this.
That's really not true though. Apple removed it from the prominent battery icon display in OS X 10.9 Mavericks, 3 years ago. They buried it in the battery menu at that time. Back then, people noted it wasn't accurate. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/the-battery-icon-cant-show-time-remaining-anymore.1660335/
This time they got of it entirely, even from the buried battery menu.
