I know this isn't news, but today was the first time I used mine continuously for many hours. I did about 6-7 constant with half brightness using Citrix Safari plug in to use my office PC. Obviously not an intensive task, but I had 65% left afterwards. I was even switching desktop to mac occasionally to do some non-worky stuff. Very happy with it. If only my iphone could be as good!
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Ridiculously good battery on 2013 MBA
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Probably not very precise. The CPU performance of Air is almost the same as 13-in Pro (i5 vs i5 or i7 vs i7). It is pretty powerful among laptop computers.
I don't know exactly why the MBA got such a battery boost with Haswell, but for some reason Windows Ultrabooks are only getting a little over half its battery life despite having a similar CPU/screen/battery capacity. That's quite a massive difference.
For example, engadget tested the MBA's battery life at 12:51 (that's before Mavericks, so it's probably better now), while some Ultrabooks are still in the 6-7 hours range, some of them with Haswell. I'd be curious to know what factors (software I assume?) give such a large discrepancy.
The poster you replied to gave 70% of the kudos to Intel and 30% to Apple.
Maybe for other manufacturers, he should give 200% to Intel and minus 100% to the manufacturer
iPhone battery isn't all that bad. In about 8 hours, mine only dropped about 3 or 4 percent... I was sleeping and it had basically everything except GPRS off
But in all seriousness, my MBA has impressed me massively. It's as powerful, if not more so than the 2011 13" Pro it replaced and as for the absence of a retina display, I don't mind at all. I have an iPad with one, and sure, it's nice, but for a laptop that I'm not watching HD videos and photo editing all day, it's very, very good. I'd say pound for pound (or dollar for dollar) the best consumer laptop I've ever used.
Agreed. My 4 would last for 2 days easy, sometimes 3. My 5S barely makes it to midnight some days.
Anyone here care to report real world battery life on 2013 i7 MBA running Maverick? Still debating between i5 and i7. Have read the reviews and specs but would like to see real world numbers-- actual duration of use, not just readings off the battery estimator.
