Your Battery life?

[DrNick8404]

How long do you get out of your macbook pro with normal daily use? Is it just lion that causes the power to last 4-ish hours? I love it when the battery say 7+ then cry when it goes back down to 4. I usually have screen brightness at 1/4 and backlit keys are off. Chrome is always open.

 

[JasonR]

Did you get better battery life on Snow Leopard?

 

[DrNick8404]

bought it brand new from the base exchange few weeks ago with lion already installed

 

[yusukeaoki]

I have my brightness 3/4 and keyboard on full.
With using Safari, it lasts me about 5~6 hours even with background running apps.

If I watch video it goes down to about 4 hours though.

Running OS X Lion 10.7.3

 

[hafr]

How long do you get out of your macbook pro with normal daily use? Is it just lion that causes the power to last 4-ish hours? I love it when the battery say 7+ then cry when it goes back down to 4. I usually have screen brightness at 1/4 and backlit keys are off. Chrome is always open.

Normal daily use for me is light browsing in Safari (fact search, news sites, the odd forum, never using flash), reading (PDF:s, word documents) and using Word and Excel (no real heavy computing though, if that could make a difference in how much juice Excel needs). I use it pretty much non stop during eight hour days and I don't even bring my charger... So let's say at least six hours without breaking a sweat.

At home, playing music in iTunes and Spotify, watching movies in iTunes, using flash and so on it lasts about four or five hours (mainly depending on how much flash I use) before I need to go find the charger.

 

[elpmas]

At 86% health, it's about ~4.5hrs with FF and chrome open--web browsing mainly.

 

[bozz2006]

I went from 7 hours with Snow Leopard to 4.5 with Lion.