Nope! Me too. I went from 13 hrs with Firefox running on 2013 MBA to barely 8 at 100% charged. down to 6 hours at 85%. Nothing changed but the OS install while on AC power
What can I do? This SUCKS
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OS X 10.9 Maverick - Battery Life
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Nope! Me too. I went from 13 hrs with Firefox running on 2013 MBA to barely 8 at 100% charged. down to 6 hours at 85%. Nothing changed but the OS install while on AC power
What can I do? This SUCKS
It's most likely an app that has not been updated for mavericks yet. This post was from back around July when they first announced it. I found out the problem was from an app called cinch that I had running. Once I stopped using that app my battery life was good
Since updating I am only getting around 3 hours per battery charge on just surfing alone where I used to get at the minimum 8 hours depending on what I was doing and I have just noticed that it has only taken 45 minutes for the battery to recharge to 50% so something is obviously not right here although I don't mind the quick charge haha.
Just fully charged (after about an hour) and looked and it says that I only have just over four hours remaining.
Also looking at the battery usage in Activity monitor it says that my time on battery is 18 minutes and the charge has already dropped down to 93% within that time.
Surley this isn't right and it most certainly wasn't like this prior to the upgrade!?!
Just fully charged (after about an hour) and looked and it says that I only have just over four hours remaining.
Also looking at the battery usage in Activity monitor it says that my time on battery is 18 minutes and the charge has already dropped down to 93% within that time.
Surley this isn't right and it most certainly wasn't like this prior to the upgrade!?!
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I have a July 2012 MBP non-Retina 2.6 GHz, upgraded from 8 to 16Gb of memory. When I went from 10.7 to 10.8, I went from 8 hours to 6 hours of battery life. I have tried all kind of fixes, and nothing helped. Going from 10.8 to 10.9 has brought me back to 8 hours.
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Same here except i upgraded from Mountain Lion. The battery life on my MBP 2009 is now less than 2 hrs on Mavericks when i use to get around 3.5-4 hrs of battery on ML
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Hi Tucks000,
Same here !
mine is macbook late 2009, used to get 6hrs+ on Lion or ML
now left 3.56hrs full charged !!!!!
I WANT MY BATTTERY LIFE BACKKKKKK
Hi Tucks000,
Same here !
mine is macbook late 2009, used to get 6hrs+ on Lion or ML
now left 3.56hrs full charged !!!!!
I WANT MY BATTTERY LIFE BACKKKKKK
I did repair disk permission in disk utility as when i verified the disk, there were many issues. Along with that i recommend you to reset the SMC. Worked for me and m back to 3hrs+ battery life. Just saw the battery health and its down to 65%. Still very impressed that i could see 3 hrs of video playback at that health. Loving Mavericks.
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Nope, you're not the only one. I have a MacBook Air from 2012 and I used to be able to keep my laptop in my backpack on sleep mode the whole day and when I got home it'd still be at 95%. Now when I get home, after not using it at all the whole day and having it on sleep mode, it'll have 45% left.. I find this really weird and frustrating.
Nope, you're not the only one. I have a MacBook Air from 2012 and I used to be able to keep my laptop in my backpack on sleep mode the whole day and when I got home it'd still be at 95%. Now when I get home, after not using it at all the whole day and having it on sleep mode, it'll have 45% left.. I find this really weird and frustrating.
I was getting 8hrs+ with ML usually running Safari, Mail, iTunes, Messages and maybe a few other bits and bobs.
I'm getting 5hrs at best under the same conditions with Mavericks after a clean install on an early-2013 rMBP (my battery health is still 100%!).
Any suggestions or clues or just wait it out 'til 10.9.1?
I'm getting 5hrs at best under the same conditions with Mavericks after a clean install on an early-2013 rMBP (my battery health is still 100%!).
Any suggestions or clues or just wait it out 'til 10.9.1?
I have a mid 2010 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo Macbook and since installing Mavericks my battery life has significantly decreased. Many other users on the Apple forums are experiencing the same issue. Apple has done nothing to address this problem. Apparently they think nothing is wrong?
I have submitted a couple bug reports about it. I have tried resetting the SMC and completely erasing the hard drive and re-installing Mavericks. Nothing has worked. I reinstalled Mountain Lion and my battery life shot right back up to the way it used to be.
I have submitted a couple bug reports about it. I have tried resetting the SMC and completely erasing the hard drive and re-installing Mavericks. Nothing has worked. I reinstalled Mountain Lion and my battery life shot right back up to the way it used to be.