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OS X 10.8.2 Restores Notebook Battery Life to OS X Lion Levels
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Thanks for the update? How about not ***** up the battery life to begin with. It makes one wonder how this gets through all the beta testing.
Dropping like a stone
I've got a late 2010 MBP came with snow leopard and never been the same since Lion and now with Mountain Lion its even worse.
Downloaded a battery app and it reported my battery was 90% of what it should be when it was new, its now showing 96% and reports over 5 hours of use. After about 10 mins it then shows 94% but the time has dropped below 5 hours.
I just hope 10.8.2 sorts this problem out.
I've got a late 2010 MBP came with snow leopard and never been the same since Lion and now with Mountain Lion its even worse.
Downloaded a battery app and it reported my battery was 90% of what it should be when it was new, its now showing 96% and reports over 5 hours of use. After about 10 mins it then shows 94% but the time has dropped below 5 hours.
I just hope 10.8.2 sorts this problem out.
Same, I noticed a big drop with ML on my RMBP. Was getting 8-10 in Lion and dropped to 5-6 in ML. I hope this brings me back well over the advertised 7 hours of battery life.
Good to know they finally fixed that. Im still amazed apple doesn't get something like this right from the start. I mean they test the OS before release dont they, how come nobody noticed it before, and if they did why not fix it and then release the software.
Apple has a wide beta distribution beyond developers since Lion, it is just not open, ie, Apple invites you. I've been in this program for Lion and Mountain Lion.Real-world data could be gathered if they tried to do the same that MS does: open betas. It works and Windows 8 is almost bug-free and runs in thousands of PC configurations.
I had my battery replaced about a month ago and my MBP 2010 has about 2 hours on a full charge....I thought it was faulty.
GRRRR
I hope this fixes it big style!
GRRRR
I hope this fixes it big style!
I had a free developer account for years with them but only used it for custom, in-house C++ and Fortran code, ie, I never built or released a Mac or iOS application. I also had amassed some credits on Apple's own discussion boards. If I had to venture a guess why I was included I would rather say it was the latter but there probably was a good deal of luck involved as well.
I had my battery replaced about a month ago and my MBP 2010 has about 2 hours on a full charge....I thought it was faulty.
GRRRR
I hope this fixes it big style!
How much did that cost you?
ouch, never heard an apple user say the windows is used for "basic functionality." Say all you want against it, but that simply is false.
He didn't say that "basic functionality" is all it's used for, he said it's all you get, which is more or less the same with any OS. Keep in mind that iPhoto and the entire iLife suite is not actually a part of Mac OS. The OS itself only comes with the basic apps expected with any OS, plus a few extra goodies. The real power in Mac OS is at its core, not at its surface. Apple has started to focus on its core apps a bit lately though, so there is more of a gap between Mac OS and Windows now than there used to be on that front.
Developers and a few curious people are not necessarily interested in battery life and the performance and reliability of core OS features.
A broad, open beta program could allow Apple to test what works and what doesn't with the "average joe" or people interested on having a reliable OS since day 1 from launch. Apple only needs to build proper reporting tools.
If Apple wants to make "really great products", ignoring bugs and poor features is not the best way to do it. But I doubt their marketing team will ever let the engineers do that.
It simply won't happen.
An what about the sound bug. Is that fixed ? I cant use ML atm as the sound is buggy even under 10.8.1.
I can't say I have that issue using a rMBP on 10.8.1. Speakers or headphones hooked up near 100% of the time with no issues. I'll get minor pops in the speakers sometimes from major power fluctuations but that's because it's not behind some fancy PSU and the wiring here sucks.
It seems like those the most affected are on older machines. If I had to bet money Apple only heavily tests on the newest machines -- aside from some minor UI lag and mouse issues ML has been the best early release to date in my book. The battery life for me runs around 6hrs for regular web use and I've got extra stacked processes from VirusBarrier.
VLC has lots of sound problems since Lion and they reported that it is Apple's fault. Maybe because it is open-source?
I also own a rMBP and I have issues with sound in VLC since Lion and also with my former 17" quad-core Macbook Pro, even when after some Lion update I completely lost sound (I had to reinstall the full OS from scratch).
The updates and bugs on Apple's hardware are close to unacceptable, since they have to work with a a very limited hardware pattern. The caveat is that they want to do EVERYTHING.
Nobody does *everything* right, not even Apple.
I was using Windows the other night and the experience was just so perfect, so much better (i.e. smoother, snappier, and more user friendly) than OS X
...then I woke up.
