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Stanoefc

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Dec 3, 2011
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So I'm getting an 11' MacBook air soon (4GB RAM, 128SSD) and I want to know what's the shortest and longest battery life time you guys have had with your 11' MBA's?
 
2.5 hours watching a movie with full brightness and 6 hours or so with light web browsing at 50% brightness.
 
shortest was about 2 hours. I minimized some flash game in firefox without even thinking about it that was using a lot of resources, was using it on full brightnes too.

longest was around 6 hours. was just this weekend. watched roughly 2 full games of hockey in the basement while watching my hockey pool stats and chatting on irc, was at 15% battery when i went upstairs.
 
shortest was 1.5 hours playing Team Fortress 2 and longest was 7 hours second lowest brightness setting just taking notes and some light browsing.
 
2.5 hours watching a movie with full brightness and 6 hours or so with light web browsing at 50% brightness.

Got the same as you. 6 hours is quite easily achieved with bluetooth turned off and brightness settings set to near minimum, with keyboard backlights turned off of course. :apple:
 
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