My Battery Is draining fast. Help!!!?

Hey Everyone,


So I bought my macbook pro 13" 2013 (standard 750gb higher end model sold in stores) in April of this year. It's brand spanking new. The battery was awesome! I got a good 9 hours out of it while even working in photoshop and illustrator. I noticed slowly over time my battery started to drain quicker and quicker. When I first got it from 100% to 90% took 45min-1 hour. I thought that was great. Now my battery is draining literally by the minutes. When I look at the clock the battery precent ticks down. I've been to the apple store 7 times for this F@cking issue. It ****** me off that the idiots there don't know what the **** they are doing. If this was 5 years ago they'd hand me a new computer to keep me happy, now I just go in circles and circles. Anyways, I've wiped my computer (liked they recommended) and reintalled everything manually (Just incase if I did a time machine back up the original problem would get transfered on). That didn't work. Then they did a "stress test". I was told when I picked it up that it was being "repaired" and there was a problem with it. I thought ok great! It's gonna be fixed. But, when I came back to get it, I was told there wasn't an issue and it didn't get fixed that my battery was fine. They always checked the Activity monitor. A random program would pop up and show a high CPU and then dispear. This was their "conclusion", but they were WRONG. When I open activity monitor something pops up with high CPU and then dispears or returns to normal (Ex. 0.02%) instead of 95% or 75%. I thought let me quit and try again. I found everytime I quit and reopen it something else will pop up with high CPU never the same program always something different at a different precent. it will show up for a second then return to normal. This keeps happening when you repeatedly open it!!! So, that's not the problem.


As for programs. I am running Adobe CC, BUT adobe CC wasn't available back in March/April so that can't be the issue, even then I has CS5 suit and that's what I ran smoothly on my computer when I first got it. I transfered all my original music, movies, documents, and that's it. All the basics. I only downloaded Chrome, Firefox (After the fact I knew it was still draining) Blender(Not that i use it, ever, but want to learn) Finalcut Pro (Which is never opened) and that's it! So, I have no idea why it is draining!!!


When they do their ******** "Dianogstic" the battery comes back "normal" when obviously they see it's not normal. Wipe and reinstall won't work since I did that, I stressed it out and that didn't work,I've did a PRAM reset, and reset where the batery charges (Cntrl,Cmd, power), I've uninstalled any other 3rd party apps, I've booted in safemode to find problem. I have PC installed in bootcamp, but that was installed after the fact. I don't know what else it could be.



WHAT ELSE IS THE PROBLEM?????????? ANYONE KNOW????

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Sep 2, 2013 11:38 PM

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Sep 2, 2013 11:52 PM in response to mky44

If you're running CC apps whilst on battery, your battery isn't going to last long. The Apple quoted '7 hours' is for light Internet browsing, with the screen and backlit keyboard dimmed, using other battery saving techniques, etc.


What you're experiencing seems normal - I wouldn't expect more than 2-3 hours of usable battery time if you're running Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. If I were you - if you're able - I would leave the computer plugged into mains when running CPU/GPU intensive apps. You're simply not going to get much battery life running those types of apps.


Clinton

Sep 3, 2013 12:05 AM in response to mky44

I've no idea how you were running Adobe apps (even CS5) for eight hours on battery. I don't know of anyone getting that sort of time on battery, even just surfing the web! If you were getting that amount of time using CPU/GPU intensive apps, THAT'S unusual! What you're experiencing now, I guess, is just the 'normal' operation of the battery.


The battery is advertised to last for 7 hours for light Internet browsing, with power saving features activated. That you got more is what's unusual, not what you're now experiencing!


Clinton

Sep 3, 2013 12:13 AM in response to mky44

WindowServer draws everything you see on the screen. It acts as a mediator between applications that want to draw on the screen and the graphics hardware. When an application wants to draw something, it establishes a connection with WindowServer, tells WindowServer what to draw, and WindowServer handles the drawing / compositing / Quartz Extreme hardware acceleration to finally produce what's seen on the entire screen.


So there for that probably should be reinstalled again. Try erasing and reinstalling the OS but this time, partition the drive to 16 partitions, down to 1 then back to 16 then back to 1 and erase it one last time. Instead of using your recovery HD reinstall from the recovery assistant that you can download from apples website here.http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433


And clinton is spot on according to how a battery should last. I would be impressed if you got even 5-7 hours of battery life on PS.

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