Lion - Horrible MacBook Pro Battery Life

They must be fixing it...

But it could suit them to make a public statement about this, I feel a little left in the dark with my battery running out!

So many reasons to dump Lion and this isn't the best... Such a shame Apple blew it with Lion.

Yes, I know I was stupid to be taken in by Apple and expect a day 1 release to work, but I'm new to Macs and thought they could be trusted.

Maybe some pre-release testing might have identified all the bugs, but I guess they didn't have the time or money to do any so it's a massive re-install of Snow Leopard for me until they fix all the bugs - at least in a year or two when it works I'll be able to download it again from the app store as i've already handed over my cash - at least I'd beter be able to download it again!

I am having the same problem here. If the macbook is unibody (you cannot detach the battery), it doesn't need re-calibrating. I used to get more than 6 hours on my macbook but after lion battery life dropped to about 1:30 and maximum 2 hours.

Michael,

I would try removing Citrix or its components. Apparently alot of us have either intentionally or unintentionally installed Citrix Access Gateway or one of the Citrix products that has a known issue with 10.7.0. I tried the SMC reset and some other tricks to get my battery life back to normal and my fan to slow down and my MPB to run cooler. None of these worked. Here are a couple of links to try.

http://http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130356

I would search under Citrix update for mac os x 10.7 and there is also an apple discussion thread athttp://https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3220846?start=0&tstart=0

http://https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3220846?start=0&tstart=0

Hope this helps, Thank you for all the research you do.

PS I couldn't get the other link to work but the one at the apple thread has the relevant information.

Message was edited by: jonathanfromorange city

Even after upgrading ram to 8Gig, I thought it would help preventing my MBP from paging. Unfortunately, after a while, as I use Safari under OS Lion, I see the app using up memory and initiating the swap file... Power imediately drops after that and Im back to the old problem. At 75% battery power, Im left with 2hrs and 50 min.

I'm switching to Chrome and will see how this can save memory leak and battery drain... (sorry for the addional issue on this thread). Am trying to address look into battery drain but I also found memory leak with Safari. I have a feeling they are connected.

Guys,

I know for sure that an update will come soon. Apple is apple. I'm also a developer and I understand that is no possible to release an OS without this kind of bugs. Very bad that affect the battery. But they know for sure, and they are working on this. It happened for the iPhone 4 too, and they released an update in 3 weeks.

The best thing to do is to calm down and leave everything like this. In a few days we will have this fricking update. Like always.

When you feel bad about the battery, look around and find some windows people. Look at they computer and you will feel better. Instantly.

I hope this will help someone.

(sorry for my english, I'm Italian 🙂 )

Ivan

Bravo! Well put, Ivan.

Even though my Air is on its way to Apple because Lion may have killed its startup sequence, I'm confident Apple will fix the energy problem. I hope they solve the interface problems along the way and also:

• Bestow on Lion Snow Leopard's processing power and stabilty.
• Bring back Rosetta or provide a Rosetta substitute while developers scramble to create Lion-compatible apps.
• Solicit developers to create more apps that matter.
• Apple should maintain a directory of other apps that don't appear in the Store, perhaps via MacUpdate or the like, to complement the apps in the Store. They could make money from apps on the inside, referrals on the outside.

Then I will love Lion, I promise. I do favor Apple. Its service has improved tremendously.

Of course he would say that. Admitting that they have a problem with the battery is very much like telling you: sorry, we screwed up. I hope they can fix this problem in their updates soon.

Yes that might be true. But still, do we have to disable flash on our browsers just because Apple screwed up? 99% of the websites today use Flash. Disabling flash means not being able to use those websites the way they were intended to be used.

Any excess CPU usage by Flash is not in any way the fault of Apple.

Adobe solely controls the Flash plugin for Mac OS X, is solely responsible for its performance, or lack thereof, and has had access to Lion beta seeds for at least six months if not longer, so they can't claim they "didn't know" of any issues with Lion.

Literally, Apple could not affect the performance of Flash even if they wanted to, as they do not control the source code to the plugin as it's a proprietary Adobe product, 100% controlled by Adobe.

Perhaps addressing Lion performance is in Adobe's "to do" queue, right after completing a version of Flash for iOS. 😁

I am seriously thinking about installing Windows on my MacBook. I decided to quit using Windows because of all the problems they had. But it seems Apple is not that much better. Going back to Windows will probably be the right choice. Don't you agree?

Not buying it.,,, But wait, I did, and now I'm stuck with it. My MBP is officially a desktop device.

Maybe apple is telling me to buy an iPad... BAH!

Maybe osXI will be "back to the mac" instead of all the iOS nonsence to get the millions of iOS users to cloud our beloved OS.

Maybe there was a reason these iphone/ipad people haven't gotten a Mac to begin with? Maybe alienating the very people who made the company an industry standard in graphic/video/audio production will in turn create a better more open sourced alternative platform with upgradeable video cards that utilizes multitasking instead of being forced to look at one screen while in fullscreen mode or dealing with the archaic spaces. Even after it's face lift and name change (mission control), it's old and useless if you actually use multiple apps at once or have multiple screens.

I think this was a greedy move on Apple's part and they should have left some most of the iOS features on iOS devices.

I digress.

Message was edited by: TheSmokeMonster: it's a shame because I was really looking into getting an iMac but since they upgrade their hardware so frequently and now that iOS has take over the MAC I'm seriously looking into going back to PC or maybe Linux... *Frustrated*... Maybe I'll just go back to SL.

Well, well, well... I'm lucky I didn't upgrade to Lion yet. But here's a solution to you all!

Create a dual boot between Snow Leopard and Lion!!

This simple solution remains you Slow Leopard with all your files and the possabily to use Lion's features. And, as far as I know, you can import Snow Leopard apps to Lion. Otherwise, if you've already installed Lion over Snow Leopard I would suggest to get to your latest Snow Leopard Time Machine backup and otherwise just backup all your files and downgrade to Snow Leopard.

Right now my Macbook Pro 13" Early 2011 model with a 2.3Ghz i5 processor and 4GB of RAM can run up to 9 hours of battery life when I'm just using Firefox. With more programs open I can get up to 7 hours.

I'll probably just wait until 10.7.1 or create a dual boot (Which is by far the smartest option)

Steve only wants what's best for you. He is really sorry that you bought a MacBookPro - actually he wanted you to buy an iPad, because he earns more money on it.

Sadly, we still believe that Apple is the company it used to be 10 years ago. In fact, however, Apple works with the biggest Chinese Computer Firm who employs - sorry: enslaves - more than 600.000 people to produce their products, and everyone knows about the working conditions in such companies.

To believe that they care about anyone is obviously pointless. As we can see in this thread, they get their 30 bucks for this unfinished OS. They are talking about 250 new features, like Mission Control or Launchpad, but they don´t talk about the OS itself. Is it faster? Is it really 64 Bit? Where are the improvements in comparison to SL? No one's talking about the technical aspects that are actually of the most interest to us as professionals who need them.

They sell this OS like an App for iPhone or iPad. Doesn´t matter if you like it, the most important thing is the money it earns them, guys.

I do believe that in 5 years you will have to give your credit card number to log into your MacBookPro, and pay for every second you use the OS.

For me, next time it will be a PC, that's for sure. Less expensive and I can do what I want with it!

As early adapter and advisor to others I always want the latest software. There have been issues and bugs before with other upgrades but Lion is the first that made me go back.

Exept for some glitches caused by left-overs from Lion, most is working well again for me on Snow Leopard. Like I hear others say, this seems a massive update to Lion. Battery lifetime has expanded with more than an hour! The system is running smoother and I see a lot less beach balls. My Macbook Pro is not even a year old so it's not that the issues can be linked to old hardware. I've handled the issues with Safari and iPhoto. I only need to fix Quicktime!!

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