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Macbook Pro retina 13 512gb battery life?

Hi everyone,


I just purchased a macbook pro retina 13 wih 512gb that came with OS X Mavericks. i noticed that my battery life is about 5 hours?? i've read multiple threads regarding this issue, but not sure if anyone with the 512gb rMBP is experiencing this same issue as me? I have only been using it to browse the internet and listen to music. I noticed that when my laptop went into sleep mode for about 5 mins, kernal_task was over 100% upon wake up. I did a system restart and kernal_task went down. does anyone have any suggestions on anything i can do to improve my battery life? i am new to mac and bought this laptop hoping to get really good battery life like it was advertised... 5 hours is not worth over $1800 :/


please help or any advice would be appreciated! thank you!

Posted on Feb 2, 2014 6:57 PM

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Jan 12, 2017 3:30 PM in response to remister8

I bought a new macbook retina display 15 inch after using my 2012 one for 4 years.. The first week or two it lasted about 6 hours, 3 weeks into it the battery fully charged does not exceed 4 hours! often 3+ hours.

I almost exclusively use it for web/ppt/microsoft office for mac .. routine apps overall.

over $4000 for my configuration. Performance overall improved .. i agree but , the battery life makes this product obsolete: I do not recommend purchasing this product .. not until apple comes up w a replacement or fix.

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Macbook Pro retina 13 512gb battery life?

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