OS X 10.9 Maverick - Battery Life

[joyless]

Curious, did you upgrade or clean install?

First I did a clean install on a new partition and after confirming that all my necessary apps are working fine I deleted the partition and upgraded 10.8.4.

Unfortunately it's not so great, I feel it's less responsive than Mountain Lion and sometimes it will lag so much I have to do a hard reboot, since I can't even force quit anything.
It's fine though, it's beta. When Mavericks is released I will do clean install - I think I have been upgrading since 10.6 Snow Leopard, so it's time for some fresh start

 

[Davmeister]

I've noticed that consistently now finder is using about 50-60% CPU, even in the background. By force quitting it, and leaving the application in the background from that moment on, it remains at 7-8%. Opening a window or switching to it shoots it back up to 50-60.

Something surely wrong here on my system.

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Try an SMC Reset - my battery life was quite lacklustre until I did that.

I shall try this. Cheers.

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Sorry, one more thing. I also have this weird flickering of the airport menu when rejoining or waking from sleep.

airportd in activity monitor uses about 600% cpu during this period. Normally settles down after a while. Have mentioned in dev forums.

 

[Davmeister]

Try an SMC Reset - my battery life was quite lacklustre until I did that.

No dice, see shots below. Also note high Finder CPU as mentioned above.

 

[NewbieCanada]

No dice, see shots below. Also note high Finder CPU as mentioned above.

Well I'm afraid we've run into the limits of my knowledge. What was your battery life on Mountain Lion? Mine was more like the 6-hour level before the reset.

 

[Davmeister]

Well I'm afraid we've run into the limits of my knowledge. What was your battery life on Mountain Lion? Mine was more like the 6-hour level before the reset.

Yeh mine was within normal limits, about 6 hours if I was careful enough with my activity. Now its about 3. Something definitely needs fixing...

 

[nylon]

DP4 Battery Life on 15" Retina

Under equivalent workloads (non-scientific) on 10.8.4 and 10.9 DP4 I am getting 6:47 minutes and 8:25 minutes respectively.

 

[Vinz-uk]

Battery life Mavericks rMBP

Hi everyone.

I recently installed Mavericks DP5 to test it out, and to see how it behaves regarding battery life, my most important concern.

I was using 10.8.4 before, with a lot of updates, from 10.6.3 from my old MBP 15" 2010, to my 6 months old rMBP.

First of all, I created a dual boot installation for Mavericks, on the rMBP. I don't notice much speed increase with my old installation.

There is less lag while using the launcher or Mission Control as there is with 10.8.4 with the Retina, that's for sure. But the apps launch as quick as before, the start up is a bit slower (thus I have lots more soft installed on ML).

I used Google Chrome Canary on ML, because Safari was horrible with lots of lags. I tried the Nighty webkit, but it did not improve much.
I reinstalled Google Chrome Canary on Mavericks, and the experience was the same as on ML, quite nice browsing experience, not much lag, quick, reliable...

But I started using Safari 7 on Mavericks. And now, the surfing experience is really great I think, better than Canary, everything is smooth, I don't have much issue, so it became my main browser on Mavericks.

Let's talk about battery life.

I never complained with my rMBP about battery life with ML, it was always btw 5-7h depending on the load, the backlight intensity.
Always unsung the HD4000 on battery, with GFX Cardstatus.

This is only the 2nd time I am on battery under Mavericks, but for the moment, I notice some improvement with battery life.

This is now 6h30 that I'm on battery.
Continuous use and wifi always on, maybe 10 min of standby time.
30 minutes using windows 8 under Parallels 8
30 min streaming videos with flash on
Safari always on with at least 5 tabs, and up to 12.
iTunes turned on roughly for 3 hours
And iStat Menus indicates still 3h20 remaining.
Screen set between 25 to 60% of backlight.

I usually plug the Mac when the gauge indicates less than 15% remaining, I presume that I'll get something like 8h30 of real battery life, which is quite nice considering the power, the screen...

I'll need to do the same test under ML to compare the true gain in battery life., but Mavericks seems to be well born.

 

[rarreh]

Hi everyone.

I recently installed Mavericks DP5 to test it out, and to see how it behaves regarding battery life, my most important concern.

I was using 10.8.4 before, with a lot of updates, from 10.6.3 from my old MBP 15" 2010, to my 6 months old rMBP.

First of all, I created a dual boot installation for Mavericks, on the rMBP. I don't notice much speed increase with my old installation.

There is less lag while using the launcher or Mission Control as there is with 10.8.4 with the Retina, that's for sure. But the apps launch as quick as before, the start up is a bit slower (thus I have lots more soft installed on ML).

I used Google Chrome Canary on ML, because Safari was horrible with lots of lags. I tried the Nighty webkit, but it did not improve much.
I reinstalled Google Chrome Canary on Mavericks, and the experience was the same as on ML, quite nice browsing experience, not much lag, quick, reliable...

But I started using Safari 7 on Mavericks. And now, the surfing experience is really great I think, better than Canary, everything is smooth, I don't have much issue, so it became my main browser on Mavericks.

Let's talk about battery life.

I never complained with my rMBP about battery life with ML, it was always btw 5-7h depending on the load, the backlight intensity.
Always unsung the HD4000 on battery, with GFX Cardstatus.

This is only the 2nd time I am on battery under Mavericks, but for the moment, I notice some improvement with battery life.

This is now 6h30 that I'm on battery.
Continuous use and wifi always on, maybe 10 min of standby time.
30 minutes using windows 8 under Parallels 8
30 min streaming videos with flash on
Safari always on with at least 5 tabs, and up to 12.
iTunes turned on roughly for 3 hours
And iStat Menus indicates still 3h20 remaining.
Screen set between 25 to 60% of backlight.

I usually plug the Mac when the gauge indicates less than 15% remaining, I presume that I'll get something like 8h30 of real battery life, which is quite nice considering the power, the screen...

I'll need to do the same test under ML to compare the true gain in battery life., but Mavericks seems to be well born.

What rMBP did you use? Did you see an increase in graphics memory?

 

[Vinz-uk]

My rMBP is the based model: 2,3GHz - 256Go - 8Go of Ram.

Yes, apparently on the HD4000, it seems that before there was 512Mo of Ram on ML, and now on Mavericks, the "about my Mac" displays 1024Mo of Ram for the HD4000.
Maybe the HD4000 can use more Ram on the installed 8Go of Ram.

 

[rarreh]

Well that sounds good? I have the late 2012 and it has 768mb of graphics memory. I'd really like to see an improvement while switching between screens etc.

 

[operade]

battery issue with mavericks GM

Hi I recently did a clean install of Mavericks GM on a macbook air 2013 (the last model): my battery life is expected to be of 5 hours with 100% ! I realized that Finder is using nearly 60% of the processor although I did nothing special and that is surely the cause of the draining of the battery. Curiously after some minutes Finder's activity is normal but it can reach another 60% a few minutes later. Does anyone has this problem with GM. Thanks for any help.

 

[operade]

battery issue with mavericks (fixed)

Well I have found the culprit: it was the Cinch app which was the cause of my problem: I deleted it and Finder's activity is normal now.

 

[kappaknight]

I did an upgrade to GM from ML on my early 2011 MBP and my battery is sucking bad. I tried doing the PRAM reset and it didn't do much. I don't think there are any hidden issues other than the apps are running as intended.

Not pleased at all...

 

[hamiltonDSi]

Same, my late 2011 13" MacBook Pro has been declining lately in battery life too.

Same here.
13" Macbook Pro Late 2011.
Weird.

 

[locoboi187]

This was me on ML on my rMBP 15.

 

[petvas]

This was me on ML on my rMBP 15.

These screenshots people are posting don't really mean anything. They just show an estimate for the battery, that was calculated at the time the screenshot was taken, by considering the current load of the computer. I had once 12,5 hours left, according to the battery meter. Of course I didn't achieve 12,5 hours..
Having said that, on my rMBP with heavy usage of Safari and having 10 apps open at the same time, I get 5-6 hours. This is a bit better than with Mountain Lion.

 

[locoboi187]

These screenshots people are posting don't really mean anything. They just show an estimate for the battery, that was calculated at the time the screenshot was taken, by considering the current load of the computer. I had once 12,5 hours left, according to the battery meter. Of course I didn't achieve 12,5 hours..
Having said that, on my rMBP with heavy usage of Safari and having 10 apps open at the same time, I get 5-6 hours. This is a bit better than with Mountain Lion.

I know these are meaningless but I just decided to give this a go since other people posting it haha

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

Well I have found the culprit: it was the Cinch app which was the cause of my problem: I deleted it and Finder's activity is normal now.

Did you do a clean install?

 

[djcristi]

how about GM build on macbook air 2013? any results?

l.e. i found other threads for my question, sorry for posting here...

 

[mephal]

MBA 2010 - great decrease of battery life with Mavericks - 100% charge now only lasts for 3-4 hours at maximum. I just used Skype and the battery declined from 100% to 70 % in 30 minutes.

Thats nearly half of the time I had before the update.

 

[petvas]

MBA 2010 - great decrease of battery life with Mavericks - 100% charge now only lasts for 3-4 hours at maximum. I just used Skype and the battery declined from 100% to 70 % in 30 minutes.

Thats nearly half of the time I had before the update.

Don't forget that Spotlight might be indexing your drive, so battery life will decrease (temporarily).
Mavericks offers vastly improved battery life.

 

[mephal]

Don't forget that Spotlight might be indexing your drive, so battery life will decrease (temporarily).
Mavericks offers vastly improved battery life.

Yeah after 3 hours Spotlights energy usage went down to 0 and battery life improved since then again. Didn't expect it to have such a great influence.

 

[Mexhr]

So.. Other feedbacks from macbook pro 13 late 2011 users?

 

[Kiaku]

Macbook Air 2013 13inch i7 8gb ram result, surfing safari and youtube plus mail.

 

[anp27]

Early 2011 MBP 15" Hi Res

Battery life has become worse in 10.9. It was REALLY great in 10.8. Battery drains really fast now when using Safari. I did a clean install and I just reset the SMC. A little bummed out about this because otherwise Mavericks is great and all my programs are working fine.

However, my computer seems to be running cooler these days, compared to ML.