Q: Lion - Horrible MacBook Pro Battery Life

yes i know its just an estimate but i actually got 10-12 hours on it with my airport off my laptop would run all day with airport on i would get 6-7 hours of actually running it down i think the estimate for me is accurate enough cause i would calibrate often to make sure it was accurate i installed 2 days ago.. i installed with the magsafe in so i didnt check the battery but the next morning i unplugged  im used to seeing 10 hours remanining i saw 5 smh

those figures are in estimation but actual battery life my estimation was pretty accurate

airport on --- 6-7 hours

airport off -- 8 to anywhere to 12 hours

Hello,

Csound1 wrote:

 

Gunnerjoe wrote:

 

Hello,

 

Fully charged:

 

Charge Information:

  Charge remaining (mAh):    8523

  Fully charged:    Yes

  Charging:    No

  Full charge capacity (mAh):    8523

 

Thanks

 

Joe

There is nothing wrong with your battery.

Brand New MacBook Pro 17" running SnowLeapard 10.6.8.

No according to everything battery health is 100% , BUT it only last for 1 hour 48 mintues or so.

Couple pages back I did a post on a battery test, here is the highlights:

WiFi Off / Blue Tooth Off

No software running except what is mentioned below.

Downloaded one file, Keynote video (14 minute download using ethernet)

iTunes playing iPhone4 S Keynote video 63 minutes

All other time laptop is idle

Laptop Dead in 1 hour 48 minutes

Joe

Ok, since some people don't understand that this forum has already reached kind of a conclusion that we are dealing with the OS Bug I'm going to repeat some previous posts to stop new people on this forum doing useless exercises hoping that they will fix the issue. I mean, it wont hurt but unless you really have time to waist better read this.

1. There is no FIX (yet) for poor battery performance of MBP with Lion

2. It seems that even Snow Leopard with lates updates behive the same way (not confirmed)

3. Call Apple and create a help request, you may need it later on to prove if you want battery replaced after too many recharge cycles

3. A part form sporadic comments by some Apple store staff nothing is official

I went twice to Apple store with in the month regarding the same issue and second time I managed to have a new battery since I charged my original one too many times in just 8-9 weeks

Watch your step since our pet Elephant is still in the room.

RIP Steve

I gave up on Lion and went back to Snow Leopard.  Battery and everything went back to normal with a solid 6 hours battery life while surfing all day and doing ebay listings.........As soon as I downloaded the Computer Plague ADOBE Flash Player.......My battery life went back to less than 2 hours.

So is the real problem with Lion OR Adobe Flash Player ???? 

In my experience, Flash Player Hands Down.....No Wonder The Late & Great Steve Jobs was against it !!!

i dont think flash player is the prob cuz i had it installed on snow leopard and i still got high battery life....... i uninstalled it on lion and the battery liife was still low..... i guess different users experience different problems...... the only answer is apple needs to create a fix and they are taking very long to do so

It may have already been covered and I missed it but it looks like the problem is that with Lion the dedicated graphics card is the issue.  

I downloaded gfxCardStatus (http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus/) and my 2011 MBP running Lion was only using the dedicated graphics card and the most I could get out of the battery was 4 hours.

Didn't matter what I was doing or what apps were running, it used the dedicated video card from boot onwards.

Using gfxCardStatus I switched to only using the integrated graphics and my battery remaining went from from 3 hours to 5 hours.

After lot of  disappointment, I finally said God bye to  Lion OS and went back to SL. Now I get solid  8-9 hrs working with Citirx client for office work.

I like lion features but do not want to sacrifice my battery life for that features and it is not worth it. At least I am happy that I am going to loose only $29 I paid for upgrade.

SL - Rocks.

I agree, so much disappointment and yet the biggest one is the total lack of respect or responsiveness from Apple. Incredible. The problems we can live with, this disregard for basic business senseof keeping us informed is typical of Apple. I switched from Microsoft to Apple 3 1/2 years ago and this reminds me of the old days and why people went looking elsewhere. My entire company is Windows based expect for the 4-5 people I've helped switch and getting ready for many more to come over and now this. Starting to look silly. Two BIGGIES;

1. MAC MAIL since the last update is a joke. Frequent no connects after 3+ years of error free. It used to be heaven. Using Exchange Server and Gmail. Now the spinning "sync" icon is almost a permanent fixture now on MAC email synching a random affair. From awesome to pathetic overnight. Shame on Apple.

2. Battery life. Even the Mac Genius stores are speechless when they witness the problem. The genius bars (twice) admit there is a problem and claim they don't know anything else than "nothing". MAC still sells LION and MACBOOK Pro as better battery life. That's not good.

Come on Apple, step up to the game here or do you really not care! Time to show us you do.

OMG This is happening to me too! I have a:

MBP 13"

2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

8GB Memory

This is horrible. I am so dissapointed after installing Lion...

Apple, GIVE US A FIX!!!!!

I bought a new MacBook Pro 13' with 8GB RAM two days ago and the battery lasts for 3.5 hours with more than 5GB of memory used...

Lion is just ridiculous. I don't understand why they are not doing anything about that.. My previous 1-year old MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard had a far better autonomy   -.-

I have just switched from Windows to Apple after many many years - bad move as far as I can see.  Lion is very poor and reminds me of Vista!!

Just finished testing my Macbook Pro, took Flash off, using Safari for basic web use, backlight on two blocks so very low, full battery charge and PRAM reset.  All starts off OK at 6.5hrs reported but after 30mins this drops and drops.  Timing it I am actually getting 2 to 2.5hrs thats all.  My HP work lappie does that!!!!!

As people have said, yes there is an issue but come on Apple, confirm there is an issue and that you are working on it.

I also agree with the comments on Mail, lots of failed connections to my Exchange server, lots of spinning wheels.  All the Windows computers in the house are fine, just the Mac that has 'issues'

The other point is battery life, they are only good for so many charges, at this rate, the battery if going to be shot by the time Apple release a fix - are you going to replace our batteries Apple?

Yes, my 7-hour battery barely last 2 hours.

1 inch

4 GB ram

Boot camp (with Windows)

Don't run much, just email & FB

Downloading Lion 10.7.2 now.

No mention of battery life in the update details but there's still hope!