Q: Lion - Horrible MacBook Pro Battery Life

Thinking about it: after the updates and installing Lion you can't start up from any SnowLeopard lower than version 10.6.8, be it disk or external hard drive.

How is this going to work without wiping the whole drive?

Csound1 wrote:

 

adetri wrote:

 

http://www.apple.com/uk/macbookpro/features.html#battery

 

I see "up to 7 hours of wireless browsing",  thanks for allowing me the opportunity to correct the quote.

Well... in my opinion a maximum of 4 (FOUR) hours is waaay back from the promised "up to seven hours", even though I admit the the ey-word here is "up". But in these over eighty pages, most of us are saying the same story:

1) had better battery life prior to installing Lion

2) after installing Lion (either upgrade or we bought the laptopt with it) we barely get four hours. If I had 5.5 t 6 hours, I would have said, it's OK. But half of it is unacceptable. And I cannot accept that the problems is somewhere between my screen and the chair I am sitting on!

Last thing I want to see is Apple offering a free upgrade to the next operating system or the possibility to downgrade their already bought laptops to the prior version (SL). This stinks like M$ - when they introduced the most revered Vista and nobody was willing to buy a new computer because of the vaious problems.

I still consider that Mac OS X is way better than Windows and, probably those having a desktop never had any issues with the new Lion, however, Apple should aknowledge that the laptop users are affected (and do something to correct the problem).

Just my two cents.

Identical problem with 2 hours battery on 2010 15" MBP. Fans run continuously and machine is scary hot while doing nothing at all.

Same!  I don't understand why the fans are running at 6,000 RPM when I'm checking my e-mail and broswing TUAW?!  Why has Apple not addressed this?  It's ridiculous!

That is probably because you have some process stuck, eating all your CPU.

Check Activity Monitor and switch it to All Processes to check what it is.

I thought that too, it does it randomly, but this is a fresh computer I got 3 days ago, I haven't really even installed anything on it.

But do you know what process does it ?

It could be many things.

I don't seem to have any issues switching between 10.7.2 and 10.6.3 (the version that shipped with the Mac)

I'm just about to apply the 10.6.7 combo and see what happens then.

Loerincz wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

adetri wrote:

 

http://www.apple.com/uk/macbookpro/features.html#battery

 

I see "up to 7 hours of wireless browsing",  thanks for allowing me the opportunity to correct the quote.

Well... in my opinion a maximum of 4 (FOUR) hours is waaay back from the promised "up to seven hours", even though I admit the the ey-word here is "up". But in these over eighty pages, most of us are saying the same story:

1) had better battery life prior to installing Lion

2) after installing Lion (either upgrade or we bought the laptopt with it) we barely get four hours. If I had 5.5 t 6 hours, I would have said, it's OK. But half of it is unacceptable. And I cannot accept that the problems is somewhere between my screen and the chair I am sitting on!

 

Last thing I want to see is Apple offering a free upgrade to the next operating system or the possibility to downgrade their already bought laptops to the prior version (SL). This stinks like M$ - when they introduced the most revered Vista and nobody was willing to buy a new computer because of the vaious problems.

 

I still consider that Mac OS X is way better than Windows and, probably those having a desktop never had any issues with the new Lion, however, Apple should aknowledge that the laptop users are affected (and do something to correct the problem).

 

Just my two cents.

I am not saying that battery life is not a problem for some Lion users, just saying that 7 hours is probably unrealistic (like gas mileage claims) somewhere between 5-6 would be more likely, I get 4-4.5 with a 1 year old battery, I got roughly the same before I upgraded to Lion.

Csound1 wrote:

 

Loerincz wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

adetri wrote:

 

http://www.apple.com/uk/macbookpro/features.html#battery

 

I see "up to 7 hours of wireless browsing",  thanks for allowing me the opportunity to correct the quote.

Well... in my opinion a maximum of 4 (FOUR) hours is waaay back from the promised "up to seven hours", even though I admit the the ey-word here is "up". But in these over eighty pages, most of us are saying the same story:

1) had better battery life prior to installing Lion

2) after installing Lion (either upgrade or we bought the laptopt with it) we barely get four hours. If I had 5.5 t 6 hours, I would have said, it's OK. But half of it is unacceptable. And I cannot accept that the problems is somewhere between my screen and the chair I am sitting on!

 

Last thing I want to see is Apple offering a free upgrade to the next operating system or the possibility to downgrade their already bought laptops to the prior version (SL). This stinks like M$ - when they introduced the most revered Vista and nobody was willing to buy a new computer because of the vaious problems.

 

I still consider that Mac OS X is way better than Windows and, probably those having a desktop never had any issues with the new Lion, however, Apple should aknowledge that the laptop users are affected (and do something to correct the problem).

 

Just my two cents.

I am not saying that battery life is not a problem for some Lion users, just saying that 7 hours is probably unrealistic (like gas mileage claims) somewhere between 5-6 would be more likely, I get 4-4.5 with a 1 year old battery, I got roughly the same before I upgraded to Lion.

When I got mine, I was getting 8-9h on normal text processing/web browsing without any problems.

Your what? a little specificity goes a long way to understanding your post.

Csound1 wrote:

 

Your what? a little specificity goes a long way to understanding your post.

When I got my Macbook Pro.

majewskim wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

Your what? a little specificity goes a long way to understanding your post.

 

When I got my Macbook Pro.

Is it a 2009/10/11, is it a 13/15/17?

Csound1 wrote:

 

majewskim wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

Your what? a little specificity goes a long way to understanding your post.

 

When I got my Macbook Pro.

Is it a 2009/10/11, is it a 13/15/17?

I wrote few posts earlier. It's MBP from late 2010, 13 inch, core2duo 2.4. I got it in april, just before the new ones came out.

Sorry, missed your earlier posts, 8-9 hours is an excellent span, how is it now.