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Apple say about 10 hour battery life on their website. Three hours seems like something is really wrong.

by bjelkeman-again 10y ago

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hollander 10y ago
Maybe initial Spotlight indexing.
curried_haskell 10y ago
When have companies ever p published honest battery light estimates?
- freehunter 10y ago
  My experience with two 2015 rMBPs and an Air has shown that for light work, 10 hours is a completely reasonable estimate, which matches what Apple estimates. Of course driving an external monitor, streaming video from the Internet, and using your computer for more than just word processing and web browsing, your system will use more power.
  - 46Bit 10y ago
    Ditto on the 2015 rMBP. The moment you get beyond light work you're looking at 5 hours but for light internet browsing it really does push towards 10. It's awesome.
    - hashhar 10y ago
      Well, my almost an year and a half old Dell Inspiron 5558 gives me 5 to 6 hours (gave 7 to 8 when new) with just web browsing. I don't think that's all that great. And mind you, I am the kind of person who has managed to accrue about 13 months of hard disk head flying hours according to the SMART stats so the battery isn't exactly in a good condition.
- cillian64 10y ago
  Apple advertises "up to 12 hours" battery life on the Macbook Air 13". I reliably get over 14 with work and web-browsing.
steeve 10y ago
I get 8-10 hours easily on mine. With VSCode, Chrome, XCode and Android Studio open.
- Groxx 10y ago
  With AS? Yeesh. Mine (previous gen) will drain in about 2 hours with that or PyCharm open. IntelliJ stuff is super power-hungry unless you put it in power-save mode (and then it's not even as useful as a "plain" editor like sublime text or something). I mean, I like all the power-hungry features, and I'm usually plugged in - I'd prefer they keep adding useful things rather than worry about my battery. But it does hurt at times :)

Apple say about 10 hour battery life on their website. Three hours seems like something is really wrong.

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hollander 10y ago

Maybe initial Spotlight indexing.

curried_haskell 10y ago

When have companies ever p published honest battery light estimates?

freehunter 10y ago
My experience with two 2015 rMBPs and an Air has shown that for light work, 10 hours is a completely reasonable estimate, which matches what Apple estimates. Of course driving an external monitor, streaming video from the Internet, and using your computer for more than just word processing and web browsing, your system will use more power.
- 46Bit 10y ago
  Ditto on the 2015 rMBP. The moment you get beyond light work you're looking at 5 hours but for light internet browsing it really does push towards 10. It's awesome.
  - hashhar 10y ago
    Well, my almost an year and a half old Dell Inspiron 5558 gives me 5 to 6 hours (gave 7 to 8 when new) with just web browsing. I don't think that's all that great. And mind you, I am the kind of person who has managed to accrue about 13 months of hard disk head flying hours according to the SMART stats so the battery isn't exactly in a good condition.
cillian64 10y ago
Apple advertises "up to 12 hours" battery life on the Macbook Air 13". I reliably get over 14 with work and web-browsing.

steeve 10y ago

I get 8-10 hours easily on mine. With VSCode, Chrome, XCode and Android Studio open.

Groxx 10y ago
With AS? Yeesh. Mine (previous gen) will drain in about 2 hours with that or PyCharm open. IntelliJ stuff is super power-hungry unless you put it in power-save mode (and then it's not even as useful as a "plain" editor like sublime text or something). I mean, I like all the power-hungry features, and I'm usually plugged in - I'd prefer they keep adding useful things rather than worry about my battery. But it does hurt at times :)