Mavericks MacBook Air 2013 Battery Draining

I agree with Stevie.

That is the same exact thing that happen to me.

I bought an 11¨ Macbook Air and upgraded to Mavericks two days later and battery problems started.

I had not installed any apps or anything.

Apple support helped me reset NVRAM, SMC, reinstall, and some said that I should take it in to have the battery tested, others said it's not really a problem.

Unfortunately in my country we don't have good apple stores to provide good support, only resellers, and they don't have good support, so I'm stuck with it as it is.

The last resort would be totally erasing and moving back to the previous OS, that's not something I want to do, I;d rather live with the less than advertised and less than I used to get battery life.

It's still more than I would get with any other notebook.

A friend of mine bought one a few weeks before me, he hasn't had the problem, he upgraded, and still gets well over 12 hours of work in. Our setups are pretty similar. He doesn't use time machine or mail though. - but then I don't use mail anymore either.

Not sure what world you live in John Galt, but it is not one I am familiar with. What part of the problem that most of us are posting in about do you not unerstand? It has nothing to with junk or any other of the points you persist in, on Monday we were running M/L with 8hrs life, on Tuesday we installed Mavericks and it dropped to 2-3hrs.

Now to anybody with an IQ in double figures or more, they would realise that what has changed is the OS, everything else is the same. Am I being too simplistic in putting it down to that, rather than trying to make sense of your reasoning which has nothing to do with the problem.

Let me try and make it as simple as I can, pre Mavericks fine, post Mavericks not fine.

tut

n1tut wrote:

Let me try and make it as simple as I can, pre Mavericks fine, post Mavericks not fine.

Let me try one last time, and make it as simple as I can:

John Galt wrote:

If you want to solve your problems and you think the problem is due to Mavericks, you need tostart a new Discussion in the correct forum as has been mentioned numerous times in this thread alone.

OK I will try one more time. Somebody please tell me if i am missing something.

The thread started with the first post by scintoon on the decrease in battery life since he installed Mavericks. Per se this thread is in trying to find a solution to that as many of us are now suffering from the same problem, regardless of it not seeming to affect you.

Now please tell me why I should start another thread to discuss the same subject?

tut

Thats what I wanted to write as well...

In addition I've started a new thread as John Galt wished it...

You can find it here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5632343

n1tut wrote:

Now please tell me why I should start another thread to discuss the same subject?

For many reasons, beyond the ones I already stated, ad nauseum.

People react negatively to repeating them, and my patience for doing so has limits. On the other hand my patience with those motivated to solve their problems and actively participate in doing so is boundless.

@n1tut.

I am not really mixing in again, since it is more emotion than solutions here.

You said "It has nothing to with junk or any other of the points you persist in, on Monday we were running M/L with 8hrs life, on Tuesday we installed Mavericks and it dropped to 2-3hrs."

You know of course very well, that upgrading an OS (whichever) changes much more than "just the OS": did you already know what apps (even the so-called compatible ones), running well in 10.8, might have different characteristics in behaviour in 10.9? No you did not. The battery behaviour might very well be something else than "just 10.9". I don't know, and you don't know. We had the same issues when updating to 10.8 from 10.7. After a while there were updates of some softwares and the issues were diminishing....

Said all that I have to now, so time to bow out.

I am not even sure that the so called experts actually read and digest some of the comments or suggestions, they seem far keener to have their own say regardless.

My own problem was sorted out by one of the posters, I do not know how many others it worked for so I am happy with that. However it was just dissed by the usual subjects even though it obviously worked for some of us.

I have felt like banging my head against the wall at times with the narrow mindedness, but that would defeat the purpose.

tut

Yes, this thread is too long already.

Have a good X-mas.

Lex

this is what i saw today on my macbook air mid 2013...

I am not sure if it's just a fluke or if it's the weather or what, but today my battery seems to be fixed. been using it all day and I still have 50% left - usually at this time it's like 12% left. Hopefully it's fixed.

The only thing that's changed was a remote desktop update last night, and that I sat up all night reading tweets on it about Nelson Mandela.

@Stevie, the last good deed of NM.

@Chris, ja das ist genau die gute Einstellung, und Safari war in Bild die meist verbrauchende....

🙂 or maybe Apple's gift to his fellow South Africans.

I think Chris was talking about the 20 hours not Safari.

I used to see 20 hour estimations before Mavericks - never achieved it tho, I had to plug it in when I upgraded.

Hi Stevie:

I think it was NM, not Apple.

The 20 hours is just saying nothing at all, as we discussed in this thead. Probably, as I said before, the Mavericks OS changed something in the "prophecy" method....