How to get actual Advertised Battery Life MBP 13 2010

Before purchasing the 13 MBP 2010 i read many reviews and anandtech stated they were able to squeeze out 9hrs 45 min with basic web browsing at 50% brightness. I am only able to get 6.5-7 hrs at 50% brightness with flash block installed on safari 5 is there something that i am missing?

i am waiting for my Intel G2 160GB SSD so that may help a bit.

any ideas are welcome and thanked.

 

What type of web browsing are you doing? Any graphics intensive sites?

I easily get 7-8 hours with brightness at 2/3. That is just browsing around forums and reading.

Once I go on YouTube, I get 4-5 hours. For Team Fortress on Mac Steam, I get 1-2 hours.

 

no graphics intensive sites. The odd thing is i first purchased a MBP from Best Buy and had full intentions of returning because i wanted to see if i liked it and of course i did; i ended up purchasing one new of Craigs List. The thing thats odd is i swear that the Best Buy version lasted a lot longer maybe its just in my head tho. The only flash i use is Youtube and CNET and thats rarely. All the music i need is in my iTunes. i use windows for gaming.

 

Craigslist? Was it sealed brand new when you got it? Maybe the Craigslist owner kept it in a poor environment which affected the battery?

You should have Apple Care on it right? Just bring it in and say the battery feels off and something is wrong.

 

Yes it was brand new and sealed as far as i know. i got it 13 days ago and have calibrated the battery once. Maybe it just needs more use. I'm not sure whats off it just seems so. And yes i have Apple Care.

 

Well the battery indicator might say 8:00 but it changes every time you do something on the computer because everything you do has a different stress on the battery life.

Web browsing:

Loading page = Using more battery
Idle while reading page = Less battery usage

I say just give it maybe 1 week and if it still seems off, bring it to the Apple Store.

 

Turn the brightness down to the lowest setting, turn wireless off, turn bluetooth off. Sit the computer down, and do not do anything with it.

Should get you pretty close .

 

Flash drains the battery quickly because it's very processor intensive. iTunes keeps the processor running at 10-15%, so that drains a lot of battery too. And ofcourse as mentioned before, loading webpages drains a lot more battery than just reading it.

If you're getting 7 hrs using iTunes and occasionally flash then the battery life you're getting is already pretty amazing. You can get the full 10 hours+ by browsing non-flash sites and by having no other programs open.

 

i generally don't use itunes much at work where it would be on battery i charge it once every two days. if i'm watching a flash video it is 2-4 mins max. And yes i know that loading web pages more drains more obviously. Anyways i'm not getting what i think i should be.

I think that my battery just needs a bit more breaking in so to speak.

 

close? with 50% brightness.. wifi on and browsing in Safari I've pulled 9... if I did that, I'm very sure it would get over 10 hours.

What people don't watch is all the extra junk they have installed that runs in the background.. you can have a ton of stuff that will waste battery power... like widgets... or that istat thing in the menu bar... other things in the menu bar... etc...

 

i have nothing installed in the menu bar. i just reformatted to see it that was the problem. Office Aperture and Rapidweaver are installed i'm keeping it to a minimum because i have a Intel G2 SSD coming and there is no point to do all the work of reinstalling. Again...