Lion - Horrible MacBook Pro Battery Life

Well, since I applied the 10.7.1 update, the battery reading seems to be a bit more optimistic, although 11+ hours maybe be pushing things slightly! 😝

After 8 minutes, another 2% has been used and remaining time is nearly 8 hours. Things are looking good so far 🙂

It does depend on what applications you are running. With just Safari, I get 5.55 with a 97% charge.

Installed, Testing........

Have you updated to 10.7.1? I was made live about 1 hour ago.

10.7.1 installed - don't see any difference with battery life

Yeah. No improvement.

I solved problem with the battery life only by installing gfxCardStatus and using integrated video card only.

[ML] wrote:

10.7.1 installed - don't see any difference with battery life

10.7.1 was released about 1 hour before you installed it, how on earth could you detect any battery life change when there hasn't even been enough time to go through 1 cycle??

LandonAB wrote:

Yeah. No improvement.

10.7.1 was released about 1 hour before you installed it, how on earth could you detect any battery life change when there hasn't even been enough time to go through 1 cycle??

Csound1 wrote:

[ML] wrote:

10.7.1 installed - don't see any difference with battery life

10.7.1 was released about 1 hour before you installed it, how on earth could you detect any battery life change when there hasn't even been enough time to go through 1 cycle??

Very simple, it is still use discrete video card using skype for example, as a result remaining time at full battery is about 3 hours.

[ML] wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

[ML] wrote:

10.7.1 installed - don't see any difference with battery life

10.7.1 was released about 1 hour before you installed it, how on earth could you detect any battery life change when there hasn't even been enough time to go through 1 cycle??

Very simple, it is still using discrete video card using skype for example, as a result remaining time at full battery is about 3 hours.

3 hours hasn't elapsed yet, can you see into the future (what's tomorrows lottery numbers)

do you really think it will work 7 hours showing only 3?)))

[ML] wrote:

do you really think it will work 7 hours showing only 3?)))

I am trying to say that until it goes flat nobody knows how long it last

Same issue. I opened mine after a full charge and the battery indicator read 0%. I was able to work on it for about another 45 minutes then it shut down with no warning. I've tried everything on the forum and it does the something. Also, it is a new battery and now it's showing battery needs service....only sometimes though...VERY FRUSTRATING

As I understand this issue with battery life, the problem is wrong policy of usage video cards at least. 10.7.1 doesn't solved this problem as I can see. So I'm sure there is no any difference for battery life between 10.7 and 10.7.1.