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    Weird battery life

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by haquocdung, Jul 29, 2010.

  1. haquocdung

    haquocdung Notebook Virtuoso

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    I am getting some weird battery life here.
    I am on 70% brightness with wifi on, bluetooth off and my battery life said 3 hours of battery life. 94% of battery life left. smcFan ran at 2k rpm. I am running Chrome and NewsNetWire which are non-graphic intensive programs.
    Is this weird??
     
    haquocdung, Jul 29, 2010
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  2. Luke1708

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    Is it on the mac you used to have? Or is this the new 2010 one? I get around 2 something something hours on os X now coz my battery health is at 76%. It's not bad considering i've had over 500 charge cycles and the battery is 1.5 years old. You could try activity monitor and try to see if there are any third party apps which are eating up your cpu time.
     
    Luke1708, Jul 29, 2010
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  3. altecX

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    I get about 8hrs of internet, IM and Email on my 2010 MacBook Pro.

    Make sure none of the apps you are running are enabling the nvidia card.
     
    altecX, Jul 29, 2010
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  4. haquocdung

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    I am using gfx card status to make sure that I am on the intel card.
    yes it is 2010 mbp, i guess it's time to bring to some genius guy :)
     
    haquocdung, Jul 29, 2010
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    jackluo923, Jul 29, 2010
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    Uh, what's with the dot dot dots?
     
    Kaelang, Jul 29, 2010
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    do u ever see the life meter go beyond 3 hours? like when it's just idle doing nothing?
     
    nodrogkam, Jul 29, 2010
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    I posted in the wrong section and i can't delete the message.
     
    jackluo923, Jul 29, 2010
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  9. Kaelang

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    Aha, I see. :3
     
    Kaelang, Jul 29, 2010
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    Came to apple store, and they swap the battery for me :).
    Now my battery is brand new with 0 cycles & 100% health
     
    haquocdung, Jul 29, 2010
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    flash performance is not good with chrome on OSX , i experience high temperatures (high CPU usage) , when i browse intensive flash sites from chrome , so be sure ur not browsing flash content , or try to disable it while running on battery
     
    beige, Jul 29, 2010
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  12. haquocdung

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    No, I didnt do any streaming while noticing the battery is low.
    I know that and that's why I switch to youtube HTML5
     
    haquocdung, Jul 29, 2010
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  13. Luke1708

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    how do you switch to youtube html 5? How many hours are you having now?It should be at least 7.
     
    Luke1708, Jul 30, 2010
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  14. haquocdung

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    youtube.com/html5

    There are a few of them, but not all of them. I recommend to use chrome for them. HTML5 run fast!
     
    haquocdung, Jul 30, 2010
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    did you have applecare?
     
    puffnoodles, Aug 19, 2010
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    I'm going to assume he did, as a battery replacement would've been a pretty penny, and he probably would've mentioned it ;)
     
    DefconZero, Aug 19, 2010
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    Keep in mind that Chrome triggers the Nvidia chip to become active. So, while you're surfing with Chrome, you're using the energy sucking video card. :)
     
    ktbpylon, Aug 19, 2010
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