Anyone else experiencing terrible battery life with Yosemite? With Mavericks I was getting between 10-15 hours depending on usage, now with light usage I'm getting 3 hours with Yosemite.
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Yosemite Battery Life Terrible on '13 MBA
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My 2014 MBA (about 7 days old) is getting relatively shoddy battery life as well. No more than 8 hours, for sure. I do a lot of multi-tasking, but nothing intense. Lots of tabs in Firefox, Mail open in background, sometimes this or that other thing. I expected better and can't decide whether I should downgrade.
Maybe because the beta has debugging code in it and it not fully optimized..It is beta after all.
Battery life on my 2010 macbook 7,1 is markedly reduced. I hope this is only an issue with the Beta - if not, then I won't be upgrading.
On a more minor issue - I wish they had an option to show 'battery time remaining' on the menubar instead of % remaining. I know you can click on the battery to show this information, but I would much rather easily see the length of time remaining rather than the %. I guess they think it takes up too much space and doesn't look 'clean' enough.
On a more minor issue - I wish they had an option to show 'battery time remaining' on the menubar instead of % remaining. I know you can click on the battery to show this information, but I would much rather easily see the length of time remaining rather than the %. I guess they think it takes up too much space and doesn't look 'clean' enough.
If you're dependent on ANYTHING you shouldn't really risk using a beta anyways. Just like if you use your Mac for work. Battery issues and stuff like that I'd have expected to be a given in the beta tbh as they've not completed optimisation yet.
Battery life is still dramatically reduced on my macbook 7,1 with PB3.
I understand it is still Beta but is it really likely to change that dramatically once 'fully optimised' for final release?
Does the fact it is an older system with less RAM cause a higher energy/battery usage?
Full battery says 3 hours remaining with no apps running. On Snow Leopard it is about 6-9 hours.
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I understand it is still Beta but is it really likely to change that dramatically once 'fully optimised' for final release?
Does the fact it is an older system with less RAM cause a higher energy/battery usage?
Full battery says 3 hours remaining with no apps running. On Snow Leopard it is about 6-9 hours.
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Simple, Snow Leopard is better optimized for your Mac. It is also way more stable and tested.
Snow Leopard was 10.6 right? Have you ever used Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks since? What was the battery life like on those OS updates?
The chances are the more features apple add in then they're going to have more of a hit on performance for older machines. I would imagine either 10.7/8 or 9 would have had some impact on performance also.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, Macbook 7,1 Late 2010.
Well I definitely won't be upgrading the macbook if the battery life is that greatly impacted - many many hours less with no apps running!
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