Q: Lion - Horrible MacBook Pro Battery Life

Csound1 wrote:

 

Rayced wrote:

 

PS you were the one trying to tell people that doing a battery calibration (not needed on Lithoum polymer batteries…) would had fixed the issue.

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Message was edited by: Rayced

There you go making things up, please post a link to that.

You are the one making up things. Like the story of 43 mbpro you admin and none of em has a battery drain.

Csound1 wrote:

 

I have stated umpteen times that I think that the problem does exist for some users, I posted that in this thread, why not read what I said.

It's a waste of time to read you. But it's fun.

I said 43 machines running Lion, they are not all MBP, and I don't admin them, I own them.

Thanks for your observation. I still think this is one of the  incidental small "energy theives" which plague every OS iteration. IMHO there is something more rudimentary in Lion causing poor power usage and that something  has to be identified by Apple engineers and fixed at the root OS level. Too many people are reporting sudden horrid battery life, it makes little difference what vintage MB , new or older, we all are reporting the same thing; we can not truly use our Apple laptops sans power cord. That was not the case pre Lion.

The fact that some folk , privy to 10.7.3 are seeing improved power usage tells us that something has been re-coded in that OS version and hopefully we will all soon benefit. I note that one stated  improvement of Safari 5.2 just released was power usage.

Guys, can we stop the side barbs, please? A little humor is fine but lets keep our discussions relevant to Apple related topics and not attack one another. These spats don't help anyone solve the issue we are concerned with in  this thread.

Forgive an innocent question, Calg, but where does one go to switch betweent the two video cards?
I recall seeing a control panel or something with Snow Leopard but I cannot recall where and cannot find now do to this in Lion.

My MBP ( October 2008 model) has the two video card options .

But how do change the setting?I think I have always left my Video Card on Integrated as I do not do graphics work.

Csound1 wrote:

 

I said 43 machines running Lion, they are not all MBP, and I don't admin them, I own them.

Quiz:

Q: What Csound1 do for living?

A: Internet Cafe owner!

Csound1 wrote:

 

I said 43 machines running Lion, they are not all MBP, and I don't admin them, I own them.

So now you own the 43 machines running Lion and they're not all laptops.

But please tell us who made the Lion clean install that is deploied on all the machines (presumibly should be the same for both, desktops and laptops by your claim), which is not making the laptops having a battery drain.

I'm also curious about when those machines are in sleep mode: do they lose charge quickly as I reported (watching the powerd logs) or not?

But the real question is: if I own a flighing cow, do I need to wear a jetpack to milk her?

Barbara Passman3 wrote:

 

Guys, can we stop the side barbs, please? A little humor is fine but lets keep our discussions relevant to Apple related topics and not attack one another. These spats don't help anyone solve the issue we are concerned with in  this thread.

The question is: who is attacking who? In other words: who thinks is a genious just because sits at a bar?

Rayced wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

I said 43 machines running Lion, they are not all MBP, and I don't admin them, I own them.

 

So now you own the 43 machines running Lion and they're not all laptops.

 

But please tell us who made the Lion clean install that is deploied on all the machines (presumibly should be the same for both, desktops and laptops by your claim), which is not making the laptops having a battery drain.

I'm also curious about when those machines are in sleep mode: do they lose charge quickly as I reported (watching the powerd logs) or not?

 

But the real question is: if I own a flighing cow, do I need to wear a jetpack to milk her?

I am pretty sure that there are no bugs in spell check in Lion, if you would be as kind as to use it.

Follow Barbara's advice and stay on the subject if you have anything at all to offer.

Thank You

Barbara Passman3 wrote:

 

Forgive an innocent question, Calg, but where does one go to switch betweent the two video cards?
I recall seeing a control panel or something with Snow Leopard but I cannot recall where and cannot find now do to this in Lion.

My MBP ( October 2008 model) has the two video card options .

But how do change the setting?I think I have always left my Video Card on Integrated as I do not do graphics work.

Where you worried so much about which GPU was in use under Snow Leopard?

What about people having machines without a dual GPU experiencing the battery drain?

Do the GPU drain battery when the computer is in sleep mode?

Do people here ever looked at their powerd logs to get real batery usage, or if they're not able used a stopwatch to get it?

Does CSound 1 also admin his computers, or he's just the owner?

Will mulligans missus have an heart attack pretty soon, or he has calmed down?

mulligans missus wrote:

 

I am pretty sure that there are no bugs in spell check in Lion, if you would be as kind as to use it.

 

Follow Barbara's advice and stay on the subject if you have anything at all to offer.

 

Thank You

You should follow aonther advice: don't offend people you don't even know. Moderators have taken already measures against your beahvior and your insults.

Take it easy, drink a chamomille and think twice before telling people they need to go to a shrink or they're morons.

lol

Here's a tip to save battery life.  Remove email notifications for this thread.  You'll spend less time in your email and perhaps your battery life will be spared for more important work.

Sorry all - I'm not monitoring this thread anymore - it started off as useful, it is now just a load of chatter - I suspect I am not alone.

Bye.

adetri wrote:

 

Here's a tip to save battery life.  Remove email notifications for this thread.  You'll spend less time in your email and perhaps your battery life will be spared for more important work.

 

Sorry all - I'm not monitoring this thread anymore - it started off as useful, it is now just a load of chatter - I suspect I am not alone.

 

Bye.

Or you can organize and filter your emails, so you won't be annoyed by messages of people you don't like on this board.