Very disappointed with the battery of the 2015 MBP

[Gwendolini]

5% marketshare? Where do you come up with such nonsense? Every single Mac ships with Safari as the default browser. If you think 95% of people who own Macs switch their browsers to Chrome you're delusional.

As Macs only have a market share of 8%, a market share of 5% for Safari means that more than 60 % of Mac users use Safari (if one excludes the Windows Safari users).

https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&qpcustomd=0


I mean, I use both regularly and side by side, I guess I am 30 then?

 

[Ahmahzahn]

5% marketshare? Where do you come up with such nonsense? Every single Mac ships with Safari as the default browser. If you think 95% of people who own Macs switch their browsers to Chrome you're delusional.

That would be true if apple owned 100% of the market, but that's far from the truth. Underestimating apple's computer market share at 10% (to make the math a little easier) only 50% of the users would need to switch away from safari in order to drop safari's share to 5%. Seems completely reasonable to me, as more than half of the people I know with macs use chrome as the default.

Just ignore all that.. didn't see the reply above mine

 

[JoePa2624]

My 2015 MBPr 13" has amazing battery life, so I'm wondering if something is causing your poor battery life. I use only Chrome for the same reasons as you and watch a ton of YouTube videos. I would also be using Excel and the messages app the entire time. After all of this, I could still get through an entire day with 35-40% remaining.

 

[MBHockey]

Ummm.... really? Have a think about what you've written and consider that Chrome and Firefox add ons also work on Linux and Windows.

That would be true if apple owned 100% of the market, but that's far from the truth. Underestimating apple's computer market share at 10% (to make the math a little easier) only 50% of the users would need to switch away from safari in order to drop safari's share to 5%. Seems completely reasonable to me, as more than half of the people I know with macs use chrome as the default.

Just ignore all that.. didn't see the reply above mine

The original discussion was about battery life on a Mac notebook. I assumed the original comment about the 5% marketshare was in reference to what we were actually talking about in this thread (Safari vs Chrome on Macs.)

 

[joeblow7777]

5% marketshare? Where do you come up with such nonsense? Every single Mac ships with Safari as the default browser. If you think 95% of people who own Macs switch their browsers to Chrome you're delusional.

All Macs only represent about 10% of desktop/laptop OS market share, so Safari can't represent more than that. For it to only represent 5% that would mean that about half of Mac users favour a different browser, not 95%.

 

[MBHockey]

All Macs only represent about 10% of desktop/laptop OS market share, so Safari can't represent more than that. For it to only represent 5% that would mean that about half of Mac users favour a different browser, not 95%.

Not sure how much clearer I can be.

We were originally only talking about Macs.

The thread has to do with Safari vs Chrome performance/power utilization on a Mac.

It sounded like the original response about 5% marketshare was only talking about Macs (not ALL PCs).

 

[joeblow7777]

Not sure how much clearer I can be.

We were originally only talking about Macs.

The thread has to do with Safari vs Chrome performance/power utilization on a Mac.

It sounded like the original response about 5% marketshare was only talking about Macs (not ALL PCs).

Sorry, I missed your follow-up post. I understand what you mean, but to be fair, looking at the context that the "5% marketshare" was brought up in, it was regarding why developers don't prioritize Safari as opposed to other browsers, and said developers would obviously be considering the whole market, not just Macs.

 

[Gwendolini]

One should also see the percentage on relation to actual numbers.

If only Safari takes up only a 5% marketshare, according to Netmarketshare.dot.something, than that is an audience of 50 million people, which is still a a considerable amount for developers.

 

[Dsching]

Apple claims 10h at best for very minor usage on low brightness.
25% in 1.5h means 6h on one charge. That's excellent!

 

[Gwendolini]

Notebookcheck has measured around 8 to 9 hours of wireless surfing and H.264 video playback: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-Retina-13-Early-2015-Notebook-Review.139621.0.html

These are their measuring methods:http://www.notebookcheck.net/Our-Test-Criteria.15394.0.html

 

[deepakvrao]

Sorry guys, that was misleading I guess. I used the MBP for about 6 charging cycles, and now after switching to Safari, and with BT off, I have just got 6 hours with the battery showing 50% remaining. This is surfing, using spreadsheets, downloading etc. Wifi was on thru out, and screen brightness was at little less than half.

I don't know if you can extrapolate this to say I will get 12 hours, but the battery life seems very good.

I had not realised that BT would be on by default, and I had also not realised that Chrome was a hog.

Anyway in a few days I will be using this for a long flight and that will be a true test for movies etc.