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OS X 10.9 Maverick - Battery Life
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I've noticed a 15-20% gain in battery life with my 2011 MBP 15", too.
Not scientifically measured, but I've managed to get 6+ hours on battery browsing with a fairly flash-heavy website (cisco netacad.com)
The GPU switching is much more intelligent and you can also find out which app is causing the discrete GPU to kick on now too.
Not scientifically measured, but I've managed to get 6+ hours on battery browsing with a fairly flash-heavy website (cisco netacad.com)
The GPU switching is much more intelligent and you can also find out which app is causing the discrete GPU to kick on now too.
My battery life improvement was on DP1. Its possible you have a driver or something that doesn't work with the new kernel interrupt coalescing or something and that impacted battery life.
Haven't tested DP2 on battery yet, will do so in the next few days (just installed a few hours ago).
But DP1 for me was great.
Thanks for the info! If that is true...
10 minutes later
...still unbelievable.
i5/i7 both use similar power when 99.9% idle, as most machines are most of the time.
it may chew more when doing more, it may race to sleep faster.
Power consumption between i5/i7 = meh.
I'm running Mavericks on a 2009 C2D 3.06 GHz 15" MBP and I notice about a 20-25% improvement in battery life.
Wow! I'll probably wait for one or two more DPs and then take the plunge. That sounds awesome.
Good to hear that Mavericks improves battery life. I've noticed recently my MBP (Late 2011) has been lacking in battery life.
Have a new loaded MBA 2013. i7, 8gb, 512
Have been doing a handful of different battery tests in ML vs Mav (i have it partitioned). Running video and audio loops. Have seen a median increase using Mav of about 12%. Power nap is off and screen brightness sat to 75%.
Have been doing a handful of different battery tests in ML vs Mav (i have it partitioned). Running video and audio loops. Have seen a median increase using Mav of about 12%. Power nap is off and screen brightness sat to 75%.
I've got a base 2013 MBA 11" and got 9 hours on a good day on Mountain Lion. I installed Mavericks today and have played with it for a couple of hours now (love it), the system seems to have settled and it's showing me 14:26 hours on the battery estimate! It's pretty sick.
Any 2011 MacBook Pro comments?
I get about 5-5.5 hours with normal use (Web Browsing, watching videos, Microsoft, office, iTunes, etc.), so if this could bump it up to 6, 6.5 that would be sweet.
I get about 5-5.5 hours with normal use (Web Browsing, watching videos, Microsoft, office, iTunes, etc.), so if this could bump it up to 6, 6.5 that would be sweet.
Same, my late 2011 13" MacBook Pro has been declining lately in battery life too.
