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    MBP Battery Life Sucks???

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by powz, Jul 10, 2007.

  1. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    yeah my battery life is now 5 hours even due to the firmware update - optimal conditions of course.

    low brightness (already dark; lowlight conditions) and just doing simple office work / browsing etc. nothing too fancy and you can get 5 hours.
     
    masterchef341, Jul 19, 2007
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  2. zadillo

    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    All that stuff is so automated; probably some system somewhere figured that was the closest warehouse with the part in stock or something, or the other warehouse already had orders to fulfill. Who knows.
     
    zadillo, Jul 19, 2007
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  3. iwantamac

    iwantamac Notebook Evangelist

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    My brand-new battery's showing 98% capacity on iStat......

    weird. It's showing more than 5500mAh so hopefully no worries.
     
    iwantamac, Jul 19, 2007
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    elfbomber Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought a 15.4" Macbook Pro. Out of the box, the battery was showing 98% (don't remember how many hours were showing). So I preceeded to update it and install Applications. Once I got VMWare Fusion loaded with Vista installed, the battery life dropped from about 3 hours to 1:30 hours. I got a DVD stuck in there and I waited about 10 minutes. During this time, the MBP was trying to read the Disc. I had to reject it by restarting the computer. When the computer came back up, the battery life was showing less than 15 minutes. Granted, I didn't charge the battery, but I was shocked to see that while using VMWare and having a stuck DVD would drain the battery life so drastically.
     
    elfbomber, Jul 19, 2007
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  5. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    vmware fusion is a pretty serious system hog.

    i mean, you are running two operating systems at the same time...

    no comment on the stuck dvd, thats unfortunate, but ive never experienced that.
     
    masterchef341, Jul 19, 2007
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  6. xprohx

    xprohx Notebook Evangelist

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    Calibrate your battery and you will see the health go back to 100%
     
    xprohx, Jul 19, 2007
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