Which MBP has better battery life?

[joshwithachance]

I've been curious as to which MacBook Pro has better battery life, the 2010 13-inch with it's Core 2 Duo processor or the 2011 13-inch with it's i5 & i7 processors?

 

[Synergie]

I've been curious as to which MacBook Pro has better battery life, the 2010 13-inch with it's Core 2 Duo processor or the 2011 13-inch with it's i5 & i7 processors?

Both models are touted as having a 7 Hr Battery... but which model has better 'real world' statistics wrt battery time?

I did a quick search and found this:

2009/2010 C2D Models: Lesser processor power but significantly better integrated graphics than the newer model, equating to better battery life in real world usage.
2011 i5/i7 Models: Improved processor power, but with a trade off with the new discrete graphics, equating to decreased real world battery life.

Having said the above, I want to add that I use a mid 2009 13" MBP with the 2.53 GHz C2D and I routinely do intensive graphics / photo editing with Adobe CS5, the C2D is more than adequate! So I don't think the majority of people would even notice a significant difference in day to day tasks between the C2D and i5/i7....For me, I'd rather have longer battery life right now with a still quite capable processor, than gain a bit of processing power at the expense of battery life.

From a post on here awhile back:

Now there is a downside of the new models vs the old models, but its more of a conceptual downside and considering the real world tradeoff the new models are still probably a better deal. The deal is that the integrated graphics is actually significantly more powerful in the old models than in the new models, and while nobody complained about running normal desktop applications with the old integrated graphics, Apple has had to make the new MBP's discrete graphics turn on automatically to ensure acceptable video performance. This has actually decreased battery life vs the old models in real world usage.

So there you have it...

 

[joshwithachance]

Both models are touted as having a 7 Hr Battery... but which model has better 'real world' statistics wrt battery time?

I did a quick search and found this:

2009/2010 C2D Models: Lesser processor power but significantly better integrated graphics than the newer model, equating to better battery life in real world usage.
2011 i5/i7 Models: Improved processor power, but with a trade off with the new discrete graphics, equating to decreased real world battery life.

Having said the above, I want to add that I use a mid 2009 13" MBP with the 2.53 GHz C2D and I routinely do intensive graphics / photo editing with Adobe CS5, the C2D is more than adequate! So I don't think the majority of people would even notice a significant difference in day to day tasks between the C2D and i5/i7....For me, I'd rather have longer battery life right now with a still quite capable processor, than gain a bit of processing power at the expense of battery life.

From a post on here awhile back:



So there you have it...

Oh cool! Thanks