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so i got my Late 2008 Unibody MBP in october and now i'll be lucky if i get 2:20 just doing wireless web browsing with low brightness (they claim 3:20 for the s

so i got my Late 2008 Unibody MBP in october and now i'll be lucky if i get 2:20 just doing wireless web browsing with low brightness (they claim 3:20 for the same). I'll check in 9 months and see what kind of battery life they're getting.

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scotth 17y ago
Would it be possible to swap out the battery for one of the new ones? I'm in the same boat.
- chaosmachine 17y ago
  No. The new batteries are non-removable, and wouldn't fit.
sunkencity 17y ago
2:20! do you have the dual graphical cards? I find that switching to the low power graphic cards will give me around 5 hours, but my mbp is only two months old. I'd be sad if it would deteriorate to 2 hours in just half a year.
- PStamatiou 17y ago
  i'm always on the lower power GPU. for clarification, i can get around 4 hours with wifi off (on planes).
lutorm 17y ago
I have a gen 1 early 2006 "thigh burner" model and I'd be lucky to get 1.5h doing anything that requires the screen to be on... Now I got really, really tempted to upgrade.
- stewiecat 17y ago
  Same here. My Rev. A core duo MBP gets about the same, 1.5 hours. Problem is that once the battery hits 20% capacity it will shutdown the machine at any moment.
Tichy 17y ago
Exactly - I almost don't care about battery life because they all break down quickly anyway. If Apple managed to solve THAT problem, they are on to something, though. While atm I count on there being power sockets mostly everywhere, being freed from that might open up new use cases.
cubicle67 17y ago
I've got an entry level unibody macbook, just the 13" one, and I consistently get between 4 and 5 hours battery life. This is browsing and development using netbeans (not the most lightweight ide ever designed). For lighter use I'll occasionally see 6+ hours, but that's often when I'm doing something else at the same time.

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scotth 17y ago

Would it be possible to swap out the battery for one of the new ones? I'm in the same boat.

chaosmachine 17y ago
No. The new batteries are non-removable, and wouldn't fit.

sunkencity 17y ago

2:20! do you have the dual graphical cards? I find that switching to the low power graphic cards will give me around 5 hours, but my mbp is only two months old. I'd be sad if it would deteriorate to 2 hours in just half a year.

PStamatiou 17y ago
i'm always on the lower power GPU. for clarification, i can get around 4 hours with wifi off (on planes).

lutorm 17y ago

I have a gen 1 early 2006 "thigh burner" model and I'd be lucky to get 1.5h doing anything that requires the screen to be on... Now I got really, really tempted to upgrade.

stewiecat 17y ago
Same here. My Rev. A core duo MBP gets about the same, 1.5 hours. Problem is that once the battery hits 20% capacity it will shutdown the machine at any moment.

Tichy 17y ago

Exactly - I almost don't care about battery life because they all break down quickly anyway. If Apple managed to solve THAT problem, they are on to something, though. While atm I count on there being power sockets mostly everywhere, being freed from that might open up new use cases.

cubicle67 17y ago

I've got an entry level unibody macbook, just the 13" one, and I consistently get between 4 and 5 hours battery life. This is browsing and development using netbeans (not the most lightweight ide ever designed). For lighter use I'll occasionally see 6+ hours, but that's often when I'm doing something else at the same time.