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    Quick Apple Macbook Pro Question

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Scorpio123, Jan 7, 2009.

  1. Scorpio123

    Scorpio123 Newbie

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    Hi there, i'm planning to go purchase a 15" Macbook Pro, and was planning to add the 2.8ghz processor option, however, the battery life of the macbook pro is very important to me..

    Anybody else who has the 2.8ghz model, does the faster processor have an impact on the battery life? if so, by how much is it decreased? Thanks for any help..
     
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    The_Shirt Notebook Evangelist

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    I can't compare it to other models, because I haven't used any, but mine seems to get around 4 hours solid, and that's mostly surfing, e-mail, WoW for an hour here, hour there, etc. I moved to it from a Dell XPS 1710, so it's about 3-4 times the batterly life I'm used to....oh, and I haven't used it just on battery very often, so it's probably not all the way conditioned either...which means it should even last a bit longer...
     
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