I can't get any more than 5 hours listening to Spotify + light Safari use and that worries me What's your average battery life with your Retina Macbook Pro 15"?
A brand new rMBP pro Hi, I'm very disappointed with the macbook pro 15" battery lifetime. I had high expectations after upgrading from my macbook air 2011 which i had about 3-4 hours battery lifetime. Usually i have 3 different estimations: 3, 4 and 5 hour. i don't know which is causing these differences but are far away from the 9 hours apple says. I work in email, excel, powerpoint most of the times but sometimes i have reports that Powerpoint is consuming battery (when i'm not working in it). Since this is a brand new macbook pro (less than 2 weeks) i'm only using it with yosemite so i don't know if this is a OS X problem. This is ETRECheck report: Problem description: Test EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98) Report generated 6 de Novembro de 2014 às 15:34:11 WET Hardware Information: ?? MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) (Verified) MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,3 1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core 16 GB RAM Not upgradeable BANK 0/DIMM0 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok BANK 1/DIMM0 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Video Information: ?? Intel Iris Pro - NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M - VRAM: 2048 MB Color LCD spdisplays_2880x1800Retina ASUS PA238 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz System Software: ?? OS X 10.10.1 (14B17) - Uptime: 5:28:55 Disk Information: ?? APPLE SSD SM0512F disk0 : (500,28 GB) S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB Macintosh HD (disk1) / [Startup]: 499.05 GB (137.23 GB free) Core Storage: disk0s2 499.42 GB Online USB Information: ?? Apple Internal Memory Card Reader Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad Thunderbolt Information: ?? Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus Configuration files: ?? /etc/hosts - Count: 1 Gatekeeper: ?? Anywhere Kernel Extensions: ?? /Applications/Splashtop Streamer.app [not loaded] com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.6.6 - SDK 10.6) Support [not loaded] com.splashtop.driver.SRXDisplayCard (1.6 - SDK 10.7) Support [not loaded] com.splashtop.driver.SRXFrameBufferConnector (1.6 - SDK 10.7) Support /Applications/VMware Fusion.app [loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmci (90.6.3) Support [loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmioplug.14.1.3 (14.1.3) Support [loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmnet (0223.55.95) Support [loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmx86 (0223.55.95) Support [loaded] com.vmware.kext.vsockets (90.6.0) Support /Library/Extensions [loaded] com.logmein.hamachi (1.0.0) Support /System/Library/Extensions [not loaded] com.Ralink.driver.RT2870USBWirelessDriver (4.2.6 - SDK 10.6) Support [not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBMassStorageFilter (1.3.1) Support [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecDriverCore (5.1.1) Support [not loaded] com.wdc.driver.1394.64.10.9 (1.0.1 - SDK 10.9) Support [not loaded] com.wdc.driver.USB.64.10.9 (1.0.1 - SDK 10.9) Support /System/Library/Extensions/Seagate Storage Driver.kext/Contents/PlugIns [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_4 (5.1.1) Support [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_5 (5.1.1) Support [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.SeagateDriveIcons (5.1.1) Support Problem System Launch Agents: ?? [failed] com.paragon-software.NTFS.SparkleUpdate.plist Support [running] com.paragon.NTFS.notify.plist Support Launch Agents: ?? [running] com.logmein.hamachimb.plist Support [not loaded] com.splashtop.streamer-for-root.plist Support [running] com.splashtop.streamer-for-user.plist Support [not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist Support [not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist Support Launch Daemons: ?? [running] com.crashplan.engine.plist Support [running] com.logmein.hamachi.plist Support [running] com.splashtop.streamer-daemon.plist Support [loaded] com.splashtop.streamer-srioframebuffer.plist Support [not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist Support User Launch Agents: ?? [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support [running] com.microsoft.LaunchAgent.SyncServicesAgent.plist Support [running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support [running] ws.agile.1PasswordAgent.plist Support User Login Items: ?? iTunesHelper AplicaçãoHidden (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app) Microsoft Database Daemon Aplicação (/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Database Daemon.app) CrashPlan menu bar UNKNOWN (missing value) Dropbox Aplicação (/Applications/Dropbox.app) WirelessUtility UNKNOWN (missing value) WDDriveUtilityHelper UNKNOWN (missing value) Spotify Aplicação (/Applications/Spotify.app) EOS Utility UNKNOWNHidden (missing value) CrashPlan menu bar Aplicação (/Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/Helpers/CrashPlan menu bar.app) TrapsMonitor Aplicação (/Library/Application Support/hp/laserjet MFP/Trap Monitor/TrapsMonitor.app) Internet Plug-ins: ?? FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support DivX Web Player: Version: 3.2.3.1164 - SDK 10.6 Support AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.12 Support AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.12 Support Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10 OVSHelper: Version: 1.1 Support QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3 SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.5 - SDK 10.6 Support Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 Support JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 67 Check version User Internet Plug-ins: ?? WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.6 Support Picasa: Version: 1.0 Support iGetterScriptablePlugin: Version: 2.8.8 Support ScreenleapPlugin_1.0.0: Version: 1.0.0 - SDK 10.9 Support Safari Extensions: ?? 1Password Translate 3rd Party Preference Panes: ?? Box Sync Support Flash Player Support FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE) Support GoPro Support Java Support Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X Support Time Machine: ?? Skip System Files: NO Mobile backups: ON Auto backup: YES Volumes being backed up: Macintosh HD: Disk size: 499.05 GB Disk used: 361.82 GB Destinations: OSX [Local] Total size: 1.00 TB Total number of backups: 3 Oldest backup: 2014-11-03 11:22:17 +0000 Last backup: 2014-11-04 09:57:21 +0000 Size of backup disk: Too small Backup size 1.00 TB < (Disk used 361.82 GB X 3) Top Processes by CPU: ?? 5% WindowServer 2% vmware-vmx 1% Safari 1% loginwindow 1% Microsoft Word Top Processes by Memory: ?? 1.27 GB vmware-vmx 395 MB WindowServer 258 MB Safari 258 MB Mail 241 MB Finder Virtual Memory Information: ?? 2.35 GB Free RAM 7.66 GB Active RAM 4.55 GB Inactive RAM 2.61 GB Wired RAM 6.56 GB Page-ins 37 KB Page-outs
The 15" only gets 8 hours according to Apple, also try forcing the machine to use only the integrated GPU and see what you get ---------- Open Activity Monitor from Utilities and click the Energy tab, see whats eating all your power
You guys are aware, that battery life depends on a variety of factors. one of the biggest and most obvious being brightness. Just asking how much someone gets is completely pointless.
I get 7 hours at full brightness. ---------- I'm not a fan of the energy display tab on Activity Monitor. CPU usage for me is the most interesting and relevant.