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Tests Find OS X Mountain Lion May Significantly Degrade Notebook Battery Life
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"Train wreck". I always look forward to your insightful, informed dialogue and witty banter.
That sucks... I don't do battery checks often, but Coconut battery shows me a few of them that were saved:
Note the right-hand side that shows how my battery has degraded over the past 16 months (purchased in March 2011) I'd call that pretty serious. I take very good care to keep my battery healthy (maintain 30-70% except when I'm on the road, and do the recommended total battery drain every couple of months.)
How much does Apple charge to replace a battery?
Note the right-hand side that shows how my battery has degraded over the past 16 months (purchased in March 2011) I'd call that pretty serious. I take very good care to keep my battery healthy (maintain 30-70% except when I'm on the road, and do the recommended total battery drain every couple of months.)
How much does Apple charge to replace a battery?
Yes, he would use his time machine to move back in time and use some fairy powder on the developers.
It may not be an actual problem with OS X 10.8 itself. If you're experiencing lower battery life, use Activity Monitor to check % CPU usage for all the apps you're running. For one, I know that Wunderlist 1.2.4 has a problem running under OS X 10.8 where it consumes high amounts of CPU time non-stop unless you close the app. When it runs wild on my MacBook Air, the cooling fan kicks into full blast and the Activity Monitor says Wunderlist is consuming 100% of CPU time (of course that can't be accurate because there wouldn't be anything left for any other processes). Still, whatever amount of CPU time it is actually using, it's enough to push my MBA into high-gear -- and that will deplete battery life. So whether it's Wunderlist or some other app that's not 100% compatible with OS X 10.8, your battery life issue may not be an actual problem on Apple's side of the fence.
OK, let's add this to the list of played out, please-let's-not-use-these-anymore phrases:
Steve Jobs would never have allowed this to happen
Safari is snappier
That's what she said
Get off your high horse
Take my money!
(Well, maybe we can keep "that's what she said"
)
Battery health can be quickly and easily increased and/or maintained by doing the battery calibration every once in a while. The battery calibration procedure is listed here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1490
BTW, I don't think the image is from ArsTechnica. If it is, those are a lot of cycles...
Yeah I know. I use my laptop everyday and I'm not even half way near that amount of cycles.
Thanks for the link, I will try this soon!
Same here. My 15" Early 2011 MBP lasts me VERY long after the update. Easily 7-8 hours with moderate usage.
This happened with the iOS 5 release as well, and I expect it will happen with iOS 6. It seems to be a normal thing with Apple, unfortunately.
I can't speak to the first two issues you mentioned, but Messages handles pictures just fine for me. Not sure what problem you're having, but I can add pics to my messages by simply copying the image file with a right click, and then pasting it into the message.
Personally I think they should include an "add a picture button" to the Mac Messages app like it is on iOS, it would make it a better experience.
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Back OT, my amazing new 13" MBA is pretty much plugged in 24/7, so I'm not sure how ML has affected it.
My problem with ML is wifi speeds, my gf sits next to me with her MBA lion and the same sites load quick as always, for me it takes 45 seconds to load this site on my MBP15. And my other computers that still run Lion have trouble with the new Safari: Mac Pro is obviously slower with the safari upgrade then my MBP17 which still has the previous version of Safari.
Battery life seems to be about the same?
Battery life seems to be about the same?
Same here have notice nothing has changed but then this OS does have that new Power Nap as well as way more things to run. Reminds me of iOS having some issue with battery but its just people doing way more than before.
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To bad you did not have at least a few more to show where and when the digression started. Remember also Power Nap is now in the new OS I wonder if that may be use up some juice and has nothing to do with the battery.
Mine is getting hammered these days. Goes from about 5 hours real world to less than 3 every time. Drains insanely quick.
On my 2010 13" MBP, my battery life used to be ridiculously good. I could get through an entire day of on-and-off use without having to charge. Post ML installation, not so much. This morning, I took my laptop to class to take notes, and after a one hour lecture (during which I only had MS Word and Safari open), I was already down from 100% to 60%. Meaning I couldn't get through all four hours of lecture without my charger. Pretty pathetic.
I'll usually get about four hours of battery life from my rMBP on Mountain Lion, which is the same as my cousin's 2011 MBP running Lion. Of course the store site says you'll get 7 hours but I've never had that much battery life off a full charge on either computers running 10.7 or 10.8. I'm not saying the issue isn't there, just that I don't believe I've personally experienced it yet. Hopefully whatever battery life issues and other stuff will be mostly taken care of in the next firmware update.
The rMBP in the first post has gone through 400+ battery cycles. Your Air has only gone through 117, so you would expect the rMBP to be in worse condition.
Even so, one battery failing quickly does not prove anything. It might just be the worst one in the bunch, or have been treated poorly.
I have I don't see the issue, it just depends I still see no real issue, a little less battery current been used, just not an issue.
