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#2010 macbook pro battery life install
In my particular situation, I took a pretty new WD 640gb HD (with a relatively fresh install of 10.6.3) that I had been using in my previous macbook, and put it in the new macbook pro.
#2010 macbook pro battery life pro
I was having similar short battery life problems with my 1 week old mid-2010 macbook pro 13.
This is not revolutionary life and I am more disappointed than I had expected I would be.īy contrast my iPad has gone for days without a charge, and perhaps has raised my expectations of what Apple can deliver. 3.5 hours is what I had on my last laptop, the one before that and the one before that. What I got was an initial 5:44 declining to less than 1:00 in 3 hours - say 3.5 hours life. When Apple promise a 10 hour battery life I am not seriously expecting 10, but I do expect 5 and hopefully more like 7. The thing is I consider that to be normal work, a light load. Overall I believe my average CPU load to be below 15%.
#2010 macbook pro battery life plus
On the other hand I was programming in Visual Studio, so XP running under parallels plus the occasional burst of activity on a compile (programming being 95% typing is not as demanding on the computer as it sounds). I was not responding to that one post above specifically but had done extensive googling of the topic and have seen the response come up time after time as a sort of reflex reaction - now that Dear Leader has gone to war with Adobe (we) Apple faithful seem to have taken to pointing at Flash whenever anything bad happens, just as many used to chant "Repair Permissions" long after the original permissions issues had been fixed.įor the record, badly coded flash can be a huge CPU drain and so will chew up your battery life, if you spend too much time on certain web pages. Is there somewhere that negative comments directed to people inspire them to be helpful? Would you mind sharing where that is? All of my years of supporting Apple users has made me an equally bitter person and would like to move there.
I've never understood people who say, "Oh and to the idiots." when seeking assistance or advice from a public forum community.
Perhaps my SSD is the culprit, or perhaps I have some other gremlin at work. I would be interested to hear what current draw other users are getting. Note that my iStat battery meter differs considerably on charging, but agrees on discharge.ġ) I have installed an SSD into this laptop (Crucial C300) and while the jury is out on whether they are net power savers or consumers that could could be dragging me down.Ģ) I have run a calibration cycle on this new machine and it made no difference.ģ) I did copy my old hard disk over using Super Duper - not sure if there are any hidden files that could affect reported battery life.Ĥ) I had exactly the same problem with my last laptop (2009 Unibody MBP 15") - about 3 hours of useful life, with the stock HD.ĥ) I have wandered round an Apple Store randomly pulling off the power cord and waiting for them to compute the remaining battery life, and even there with nothing happening they still only report 5-6 hours from fully charged.ġ) My capacity is apparently above rated target at 5835 mAh.Ģ) I am assuming they have a good current measurement.ģ) I only only occasionally get my current (as shown by iStat or System Profiler) below 1000 ma.Ĥ) As long as current draw remains above 1A (1000 ma) it is physically impossible for me to get more than about 5.5hrs life. I have a 10 day old MacBookPro 13", and I am averaging 3.5 hrs of battery life.