Q: Macbook 12" terrible battery life, should I downgrade?
My macbook 12" just gives me at most 5h web surfing!!! I tried everything I found on web to adjust it, and it doesn't improve, just little over 5h on very low light display. Right from charging shows something like 5 1/2h and every minute after, it takes ca 1% off.
- I run el capitan,
- my total battery count is just 60 and shows normal health (I hardly use that laptop),
- I have very dimmed screen light just 3-4 bars of display light
- just browse on safari, nothing else consumes energy (switched off spotlight, and bluetooth, no sharing either)
- putting hard disk to sleep when possible, dimmed light, disabling power naps while on battery.
Should I downgrade to mavericks or yosemity or even lion to get better battery life? Where is the 10h promised (do I need to switch wifi and have black screen, in order to get 10h of usage)?
MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015), null
Posted on Mar 12, 2016 3:22 PM
I use El Capitan 10.11.3 and get the expected battery life for what I am doing. Perhaps there is something on your computer causing the problem.
Apps can affect Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature, and fan activity.
Try repairing your disk drive:
Boot from the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND - R keys until the Utilities Menu screen appears.
When the Utilities Menu appears select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. After Disk Utility loads select the indented Macintosh HD entry from the the sidebar. Click on the First Aid tab in the toolbar. Wait until the operation finishes, then quit Disk Utility. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
Next, you want to download and reinstall OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 Combo Update.
Posted on Mar 12, 2016 3:36 PM

