| How Long Does Your MacBook Unibody Battery Last?
MacBook Pro unibody battery comparisons… |
bouncybunny
msg:4067913 | 7:55 am on Jan 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Recently bought one of the 15" unibody Macbook Pros with the built in battery. Fantastic machine. But, I'm slightly disappointed with the battery life. I haven't done any structured testing of the battery life, but I seem to be getting between 3 and 4.5 hours out of it, depending on what I'm doing (although I haven't let it run completely flat apart from when I calibrated it). This is generally just word processing and web surfing/emails. When I'm on the road, I'm less likely to be using Photoshop or watching videos, so I hate to think what would happen if I really did some production work on it. I never expected to get anywhere near the claimed maximum 7 hours, but I did expect something a bit better than this. Is it just me, or is this similar to your real world experiences?
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weeks
msg:4068023 | 1:53 pm on Jan 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
It can probably sit there on for 7 hours, maybe. If the temperature is right and the battery is new. Your experience is normal. It's a powerful machine, which takes a lot of power. There are power paks available, I think.
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travelin cat
msg:4068055 | 2:30 pm on Jan 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
4 hours is the most I have ever gotten out of my Macbook, and this is with turning the monitor brightness down to about 60% and turning off bluetooth. Also, using anything that is processor intensive, such as Flash, or Photoshop will eat up battery life.
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bouncybunny
msg:4068634 | 1:25 am on Jan 27, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Thanks folks.
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stuntdubl
msg:4070301 | 8:14 am on Jan 29, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I've gotten about 3-4 of video on airplanes. Working without power supply on html, doc, xls, etc. I can sometimes get 5-6. Not the advertised 7, but still better than the sub 2 hrs I got on my vaio.
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