You've got to be kidding. That's nowhere near a heavy use case, and would struggle to be described as moderate. MacBooks have been running flash and GotoMeeting for years without that kind of battery problem. And saying that a 71% battery life and a 70% brightness claim is suspicious is ridiculous. It's perfectly reasonable for two numbers to be close, and not indicative of anything.
Ruzzell, I don't doubt anything you've said, but your experience seems so far outside of the norm for an Apple laptop (especially their most recent, and claimed most power efficient one) with little evidence that it's part of a widespread problem, that I think you must have just been incredibly unlucky. It does happen, I had a friend who had three iPods die on him within the space of six months while mine and most other peoples kept on cranking out the tunes for years. He didn't treat them badly, he was just unlucky. I'd suggest (if you can) that you try an Apple Store and show them that battery percentage and time remaining and get a replacement set up then and there in the store so you can check the difference.
Heavy use is not based on how the user sees themselves but what is running on the user's system. Absolutely nothing about his screenshots shows his MBPs have been faulty and his claims that Apple is lying to every MBP user are ridiculous. You two need to educate yourselves on what is being measured and what "up to 8 hours" means.
"Up to 8 hours" of wireless web or movie playback, to be exact; a fairly normal use case, and not altogether unlike basic Safari and Mail use, with Flash diddling mostly in the background and GoToMeeting diddling mostly in the background. Neither of those things should account for a >50% loss in battery life.
I don't think Apple are lying either, I think something is wrong with his MBP, but you need to educate yourself about reasonable expectations.
"Up to 8 hours" of wireless web or movie playback, to be exact; a fairly normal use case, and not altogether unlike basic Safari and Mail use, with Flash diddling mostly in the background and GoToMeeting diddling mostly in the background. Neither of those things should account for a >50% loss in battery life.
I don't think Apple are lying either, I think something is wrong with his MBP, but you need to educate yourself about reasonable expectations.
From my extensive experience the mostly cause of poor battery life and poor WiFi are from user error not from blanket statement about Apple lying or all of Apple's products being faulty. As I stated previously it's technically possible but not likely and both his insufficient evidence to support his initial claim and later screenshots point to him not knowing what he's talking about. You have ignored the Mail usage time and oddly thinking that video playback doesn't mean something very specific. Hint: You won't get 8 hours out of an MKV or AVI in VLC.
"The Mail usage time"? You're stretching man, however much extensive experience you have. Mail isn't a battery killer, not by anyone's measure. And video format isn't the issue, whatever you want to claim I'm thinking (psychic are you?)
You're making bad excuses in place of useful suggestions.
Ruzzell, if it isn't meeting expectations, then return it. I think there's probably something wrong with your unit, but if you were to take it to an Apple Store and explain your usage maybe they could make some other suggestions. It's not really probable that a forum will be able to help you out based on a snapshot of activity monitor.
"The Mail usage time"? You're stretching man, however much extensive experience you have. Mail isn't a battery killer, not by anyone's measure.
His screen shot proves that Mail is the battery killer. Simply Google "mail 100% CPU mac". Mail was showing 1 hour 45 min of CPU usage and he was claiming around 4 hour run time (half what Apple states). That means that Mail was pegging one of his cores a lot. Even 12% is high.
My mini has been running 24 hours with mail.app running. It's around 9 minutes of total CPU run time.
It's not a stretch. It's f*cking obvious what's causing the problem.
"The Mail usage time"? You're stretching man, however much extensive experience you have. Mail isn't a battery killer, not by anyone's measure. And video format isn't the issue, whatever you want to claim I'm thinking (psychic are you?)
You're making bad excuses in place of useful suggestions.
Ruzzell, if it isn't meeting expectations, then return it. I think there's probably something wrong with your unit, but if you were to take it to an Apple Store and explain your usage maybe they could make some other suggestions. It's not really probable that a forum will be able to help you out based on a snapshot of activity monitor.
If you can't look at those Activity Monitor screenshots and tell that Mail is using an abnormally high and excessive amount of CPU cycles and power then you shouldn't be commenting on a technical forum. There is very extrapolation required to understand its impact and zero math required. This is not up for discussion unless you want to claim that Activity Monitor is wrong.
So why exactly do you claim this is mostly likely a HW issue despite this happening on multiple Macs? Why do you not think this can't be a SW issue with those results? Why do you and Ruzzel think it's OK to exclaim from on high that Apple is a liar and that no MBP HW can match their stated battery times?
Thank you very much for your insight guys. I will try what Cartography! recommended above right away.
Akquies: You have a tone which is unbecoming to a forum like this which is about people helping each other find solutions and sharing positive ideas. If your motivation is not to help with this issue, I'm not even the slightest bit interested in your feedback.
Obviously, it was just coincidence that the remaining battery life in the above screenshot showed 70% and I have my monitor brightness set to about 70%. I've been using Apple products for many years and own 2 other Macbook Pros as well as a 27" iMac, 2 iPads, and an iPhone. I know how these products are supposed to work and how they normally are consistent in terms of battery life to what Apple claims. However, in this case with this brand new Macbook Pro, the battery gets about 50% of the life they claim. I've tried trouble shooting not only with their level 2 support, but also on my own to no avail. I put in the latest update yesterday and restarted, and it reindexed the Mail, but the same battery life exists. Since this is the second computer I have (as one was already replaced last week), my hunch is that there is some kind of setting I have on or some kind of software hogging power, but I can't find it nor can the Apple tech support guys.
Here's a shot of remaining battery life and correlating time from just moments ago. As you can see, there is 83% left but only 3:45 minutes.
I love this computer and it's making me much more efficient in my work, but this battery life is about the same as my 3 year old Macbook Pro and nowhere near the time Apple claims. If someone from Apple is reading this, please contact me here.
Thank you very much for your insight guys. I will try what Cartography! recommended above right away.
<span style="line-height:1.4em;">Akquies: You have a tone which is unbecoming to a forum like this which is about people helping each other find solutions and sharing positive ideas. If your motivation is not to help with this issue, I'm not even the slightest bit interested in your feedback.</span>
Obviously, it was just coincidence that the remaining battery life in the above screenshot showed 70% and I have my monitor brightness set to about 70%. I've been using Apple products for many years and own 2 other Macbook Pros as well as a 27" iMac, 2 iPads, and an iPhone. I know how these products are supposed to work and how they normally are consistent in terms of battery life to what Apple claims. However, in this case with this brand new Macbook Pro, the battery gets about 50% of the life they claim. I've tried trouble shooting not only with their level 2 support, but also on my own to no avail. I put in the latest update yesterday and restarted, and it reindexed the Mail, but the same battery life exists. Since this is the second computer I have (as one was already replaced last week), my hunch is that there is some kind of setting I have on or some kind of software hogging power, but I can't find it nor can the Apple tech support guys.
Here's a shot of remaining battery life and correlating time from just moments ago. As you can see, there is 83% left but only 3:45 minutes.
I love this computer and it's making me much more efficient in my work, but this battery life is about the same as my 3 year old Macbook Pro and nowhere near the time Apple claims<span style="line-height:1.4em;">. If someone from Apple is reading this, please contact me here.</span>
How is anything with you "obviously a coincidence" when you think you have two bad MBPs which could just be a coincidence but claim is proof that Apple is a big ol' liar and that all MBPs suffer the same proposed HW defects as yours? You clearly don't didn't think thats a coincidence or you wouldn't have arrogantlymade your irrational statements.
Akquies: You are a piece of work for assuming I'm here for any other reason than to get my new Macbook Pro running right. Go troll other forums for your victims as you are not welcome here unless you can offer specific advice for a solution.
Akquies: You are a piece of work for assuming I'm here for any other reason than to get my new Macbook Pro running right. Go troll other forums for your victims as you are not welcome here unless you can offer specific advice for a solution.
Tallest Skil: I went to that link. Thank you.
This is an internet forum to discuss relevant topics not for you to make claims of doom and gloom you can't hack up with facts. If you weren't trolling you won't have issued your warning of how Apple twicked you and how we should all beware of Apple's claims.
Even now, days later with your "claimed" horrible battery life you sttill haven't shown you've done any due diligence to show you have done anything to figure out what is going on.
Here is my remaining battery life with a new 15" MBP playing a 720p video. You see that? 5.75 hours remaining while watching a 720p video. You don't know why that's possible? Because it's in iTunes, or rather, a video player that can use HW acceleration. It's been spelled out to you yet you probably think playing a video in Flash in a browser should get you the same 8 hours of video playback.
How 'bout them Apples?
You've already bitched and moaned enough about battery life and then stupidly showed Activity Monitor showing your activities that are draining the battery fast. Don't blame me for your incompetence. Suck it up and learn from your mistake.
PS: Let's be clear how you started your comments here…
Alert: Battery life on this machine is substantially less than what Apple claims.
Yet you want us to believe that this claim is a reasonable start to just wanting assistance with something you claim is an isolated situation.
Then, SIZE=4]There are minimal resources being used according to the activity monitor.[/SIZE]
and... There is nothing abnormal about what is going on in activity monitor in terms of CPU or energy use,
Which you proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that was not the case, at least with the screenshots shown.
You also repeated this again… Alert: Battery life on this machine is substantially less than what Apple claims.
Now why am I suppose to think you're not a concern troll just wanting help with an unfortunate luck of the draw with all that crap written?
I ordered a custom 15" with a 1TB SSD and all the bells and whistles a while back... It's back ordered and now pushed back again... I'm wondering how many others are suffering from supply constraints?? This will affect the quarterly numbers and the price of the stock if these delays continue... What's the hold up Apple???????
That's not the screenshot I put in of my battery life. That's your photo.
If posting the text "Here is my remaining battery life…" followed by a screenshot showing my remaining battery life confuses you then I can definitely see how you are confused by your own Activity Monitor results..
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Heavy use is not based on how the user sees themselves but what is running on the user's system. Absolutely nothing about his screenshots shows his MBPs have been faulty and his claims that Apple is lying to every MBP user are ridiculous. You two need to educate yourselves on what is being measured and what "up to 8 hours" means.
I don't think Apple are lying either, I think something is wrong with his MBP, but you need to educate yourself about reasonable expectations.
From my extensive experience the mostly cause of poor battery life and poor WiFi are from user error not from blanket statement about Apple lying or all of Apple's products being faulty. As I stated previously it's technically possible but not likely and both his insufficient evidence to support his initial claim and later screenshots point to him not knowing what he's talking about. You have ignored the Mail usage time and oddly thinking that video playback doesn't mean something very specific. Hint: You won't get 8 hours out of an MKV or AVI in VLC.
You're making bad excuses in place of useful suggestions.
Ruzzell, if it isn't meeting expectations, then return it. I think there's probably something wrong with your unit, but if you were to take it to an Apple Store and explain your usage maybe they could make some other suggestions. It's not really probable that a forum will be able to help you out based on a snapshot of activity monitor.
"The Mail usage time"? You're stretching man, however much extensive experience you have. Mail isn't a battery killer, not by anyone's measure.
His screen shot proves that Mail is the battery killer. Simply Google "mail 100% CPU mac". Mail was showing 1 hour 45 min of CPU usage and he was claiming around 4 hour run time (half what Apple states). That means that Mail was pegging one of his cores a lot. Even 12% is high.
My mini has been running 24 hours with mail.app running. It's around 9 minutes of total CPU run time.
It's not a stretch. It's f*cking obvious what's causing the problem.
If you can't look at those Activity Monitor screenshots and tell that Mail is using an abnormally high and excessive amount of CPU cycles and power then you shouldn't be commenting on a technical forum. There is very extrapolation required to understand its impact and zero math required. This is not up for discussion unless you want to claim that Activity Monitor is wrong.
So why exactly do you claim this is mostly likely a HW issue despite this happening on multiple Macs? Why do you not think this can't be a SW issue with those results? Why do you and Ruzzel think it's OK to exclaim from on high that Apple is a liar and that no MBP HW can match their stated battery times?
Reading back, I've been a bit of a jerk here, I apologise. nht's post at the top of this page is good.
Battery life on this machine is substantially less than what Apple claims.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Well, stop the FUD. Second, I imagine you just got it, so do this: http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
It’ll help.
Thank you very much for your insight guys. I will try what Cartography! recommended above right away.
Akquies: You have a tone which is unbecoming to a forum like this which is about people helping each other find solutions and sharing positive ideas. If your motivation is not to help with this issue, I'm not even the slightest bit interested in your feedback.
Obviously, it was just coincidence that the remaining battery life in the above screenshot showed 70% and I have my monitor brightness set to about 70%. I've been using Apple products for many years and own 2 other Macbook Pros as well as a 27" iMac, 2 iPads, and an iPhone. I know how these products are supposed to work and how they normally are consistent in terms of battery life to what Apple claims. However, in this case with this brand new Macbook Pro, the battery gets about 50% of the life they claim. I've tried trouble shooting not only with their level 2 support, but also on my own to no avail. I put in the latest update yesterday and restarted, and it reindexed the Mail, but the same battery life exists. Since this is the second computer I have (as one was already replaced last week), my hunch is that there is some kind of setting I have on or some kind of software hogging power, but I can't find it nor can the Apple tech support guys.
Here's a shot of remaining battery life and correlating time from just moments ago. As you can see, there is 83% left but only 3:45 minutes.
I love this computer and it's making me much more efficient in my work, but this battery life is about the same as my 3 year old Macbook Pro and nowhere near the time Apple claims. If someone from Apple is reading this, please contact me here.
How is anything with you "obviously a coincidence" when you think you have two bad MBPs which could just be a coincidence but claim is proof that Apple is a big ol' liar and that all MBPs suffer the same proposed HW defects as yours? You clearly don't didn't think thats a coincidence or you wouldn't have arrogantlymade your irrational statements.
Akquies: You are a piece of work for assuming I'm here for any other reason than to get my new Macbook Pro running right. Go troll other forums for your victims as you are not welcome here unless you can offer specific advice for a solution.
Tallest Skil: I went to that link. Thank you.
This is an internet forum to discuss relevant topics not for you to make claims of doom and gloom you can't hack up with facts. If you weren't trolling you won't have issued your warning of how Apple twicked you and how we should all beware of Apple's claims.
Even now, days later with your "claimed" horrible battery life you sttill haven't shown you've done any due diligence to show you have done anything to figure out what is going on.
Here is my remaining battery life with a new 15" MBP playing a 720p video. You see that? 5.75 hours remaining while watching a 720p video. You don't know why that's possible? Because it's in iTunes, or rather, a video player that can use HW acceleration. It's been spelled out to you yet you probably think playing a video in Flash in a browser should get you the same 8 hours of video playback.
How 'bout them Apples?
You've already bitched and moaned enough about battery life and then stupidly showed Activity Monitor showing your activities that are draining the battery fast. Don't blame me for your incompetence. Suck it up and learn from your mistake.
PS: Let's be clear how you started your comments here…
Alert: Battery life on this machine is substantially less than what Apple claims.
Yet you want us to believe that this claim is a reasonable start to just wanting assistance with something you claim is an isolated situation.
Then, SIZE=4]There are minimal resources being used according to the activity monitor.[/SIZE]
and... There is nothing abnormal about what is going on in activity monitor in terms of CPU or energy use,
Which you proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that was not the case, at least with the screenshots shown.
You also repeated this again…
Alert: Battery life on this machine is substantially less than what Apple claims.
Now why am I suppose to think you're not a concern troll just wanting help with an unfortunate luck of the draw with all that crap written?
That's not the screenshot I put in of my battery life. That's your photo.
That's not the screenshot I put in of my battery life. That's your photo.
Which part of "Mail is what is wrong" is confusing you?
I ordered a custom 15" with a 1TB SSD and all the bells and whistles a while back... It's back ordered and now pushed back again... I'm wondering how many others are suffering from supply constraints?? This will affect the quarterly numbers and the price of the stock if these delays continue... What's the hold up Apple???????
If posting the text "Here is my remaining battery life…" followed by a screenshot showing my remaining battery life confuses you then I can definitely see how you are confused by your own Activity Monitor results..