Lion - Horrible MacBook Pro Battery Life

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Lion - Horrible MacBook Pro Battery Life

After upgrading to Lion, my MacBook Pro battery life has been severly affected. After 1.5 hours of light web browsing, my battery has decreased to 40% from 100% after charging all night.

Notes: Spotlight completed indexing the hard drive over night, and the laptop remained plugged in charging. The fans seem to be running normally, not at a higher rate. The backlight is at 50% brightness.

Thoughts?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB Ram

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 7:02 AM

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guffman

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Jul 21, 2011 11:49 AM in response to Michael Empric

Same computer here, same symptoms, and same problem.

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Answer 2

Jul 21, 2011 12:11 PM in response to guffman

Ditto

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Answer 3

Jul 21, 2011 5:53 PM in response to Michael Empric

Same for me. It's been doing it since the inital install. Everyone keep posting if you have this issue so Apple can see and set up a fix!

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Chogidog

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Jul 21, 2011 6:51 PM in response to Michael Empric

Which 2.4 C2D MacBook Pro do you have? There are about 5 different MBP's with that processor.

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Jul 21, 2011 7:10 PM in response to Chogidog

MacBook Pro

13-inch, Mid 2010

Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB

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Jul 21, 2011 7:13 PM in response to Michael Empric

Update: per Apple Care, I reset the SMC earlier today. I'll see what the battery life is like tomorrow, and if that doesn't resolve the issue, I'll be re-installing Lion.

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Jul 21, 2011 7:37 PM in response to Chogidog

I have the 13' i5 C2D, 4 GB RAM.

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Jul 21, 2011 7:45 PM in response to Michael Empric

same problem here with my MacBook Pro 2,66GHz Core i7.

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vcarra

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Jul 21, 2011 8:03 PM in response to Michael Empric

Same Issue Here, Running A Mac Book Pro 4.1 Santa Rosa 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Pro Duo 2GB.

Leopard 4:20, Snow Leopard 4:45, Lion 2:25!

Love The New Functionality, But Battery Life Cut In Half!

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jaimini

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Jul 21, 2011 10:15 PM in response to Michael Empric

Same issue here and I just got my macbook pro last friday

When I had snow leapord I got about 10 hrs and now im getting about 5 to 6.

mbp 13" i5 2011

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Answer 11

Jul 21, 2011 11:42 PM in response to jaimini

Ha!

Microsoft is working hard to improve efficiency of his operating system and Apple gives away its reputation as a provider of an economical operating system. Inverted world in these days!

An efficient and energy-saving operating system must have the highest priority at this time! Microsoft has recognized that!

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guffman

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Jul 22, 2011 5:40 AM in response to Chogidog

I have the 2.66 GHz i7, 15", 4 GB, GT 330 M 512.

Used to get 7-8, it's down to between 4-5.

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Jul 22, 2011 6:03 AM in response to Michael Empric

I'm having the same issue. I have a 2011 MacBook Pro 15 2.0 i7 4gb ram. 500 gb hd. Previously I could get between 7-8 hours. After installing Lion, it is maybe 4-5. Any ideas?

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Jul 22, 2011 6:09 AM in response to Michael Empric

Ars Technica reviews OSX Lion and makes the following observation:

'When an application is terminated in Lion, all the usual things appear to happen:

The small dot will disappear from beneath the application's Dock icon.

The application will no longer appear in the command-tab application switcher, or in Mission Control.

You therefore conclude that this application's process has terminated.

A quick trip to the Activity Monitor application or the "

ps

" command-line utility may dissuade you of that notion. Lion reserves the right to keep an application's process around just in case the user decides to relaunch it. Upon relaunch, the application appears to start up instantly—because it was never actually terminated, but was simply removed from all parts of the GUI normally occupied by running applications.'

Running these extra processes might explain the poorer battery life some MacBook users are reporting.

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Answer 15

Jul 22, 2011 8:20 AM in response to Matt Hanks

Good suggestion, but AppleCare took me through the activity monitor already to make sure there wasn't anything out of whack, and there wasn't. I'll continue to check it to make sure nothing with a high CPU usage is draing the battery today.

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