I put my MacBook Pros through a grueling battery test (basically build and destroy a VM successively, sustaining 100%+ CPU, tons of disk I/O, and maxing out WiF

I put my MacBook Pros through a grueling battery test (basically build and destroy a VM successively, sustaining 100%+ CPU, tons of disk I/O, and maxing out WiFi bandwidth intermittently) for my blog post elsewhere on HN. Worst-case, the 13" Pro with Touch Bar gets 3.5 hours. The Function Key model gets 4 hours. And the 2015 Pro gets 5 hours. In light usage (e.g. while writing said blog post, and watching an occasional HTML5 YouTube video, and listening to some music in iTunes through AirPods), I can get 8-10 hours without issue. 1-2 hours sounds like you may have an app that's more buggy than the worst that I'd allow to run on my laptop... Edit: Link to said test script: https://github.com/geerlingguy/macbook-pro-battery-test https://github.com/geerlingguy/macbook-pro-battery-test