OK so its been at least five days now since Mavericks came out and I downloaded it and upgraded so I know for sure that its not the Spotlight Indexing problem that I know some users have been experiencing in regards to poor battery life.
At present on my Macbook (Mid 2010) I am only getting around 4 hours per charge. I have been watching this ever since I noticed the problem and have noticed quite a few weird things happening.
For example when I ran it down tonight and rebooted after plugging the charger in it stated that a full charge would be 4 hours. It has only been on charge for 40 minutes and it has already recharged to 50% with 2 hours remaining for the rest of the charge but I reckon it will be 100% within the next 30-40 minutes going by what I have noticed so far.
My battery life drops significantly in such a short space of time even when I am doing the most lightest of tasks like general browsing etc. In the last full charge that lasted 3 hours 50 minutes I only did some light browsing on forums and a few searches to try and resolve this as well as about an hours work organising and tidying up my iPhoto.
I have no real obvious culprit(s) in Activity Monitor and the top energy user is WindowServer using at present 10.8 Energy Impact, although I have seen this use around 18. Is this a normal consumption does anybody know or is it this activity using all of my resources? My Desktop is quite tidy by the way with only 3 icons on the screen.
I have already reset the PRAM and done a SMC a few times but to no avail. When I option click on the battery icon my battery condition comes up as Normal so whats going on?
Are there any commands in Terminal I could use or any other options to try and resolve this issue because its getting beyond a joke now!
Any help, info or suggestions would be gratefully received
Many thanks in advance ...
At present on my Macbook (Mid 2010) I am only getting around 4 hours per charge. I have been watching this ever since I noticed the problem and have noticed quite a few weird things happening.
For example when I ran it down tonight and rebooted after plugging the charger in it stated that a full charge would be 4 hours. It has only been on charge for 40 minutes and it has already recharged to 50% with 2 hours remaining for the rest of the charge but I reckon it will be 100% within the next 30-40 minutes going by what I have noticed so far.
My battery life drops significantly in such a short space of time even when I am doing the most lightest of tasks like general browsing etc. In the last full charge that lasted 3 hours 50 minutes I only did some light browsing on forums and a few searches to try and resolve this as well as about an hours work organising and tidying up my iPhoto.
I have no real obvious culprit(s) in Activity Monitor and the top energy user is WindowServer using at present 10.8 Energy Impact, although I have seen this use around 18. Is this a normal consumption does anybody know or is it this activity using all of my resources? My Desktop is quite tidy by the way with only 3 icons on the screen.
I have already reset the PRAM and done a SMC a few times but to no avail. When I option click on the battery icon my battery condition comes up as Normal so whats going on?
Are there any commands in Terminal I could use or any other options to try and resolve this issue because its getting beyond a joke now!
Any help, info or suggestions would be gratefully received
Many thanks in advance ...
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