Mavericks MacBook Air 2013 Battery Draining

Exactly same problem with my 2013 13'' air. I have i5/8GB/256GB on my mac. Is this problem happening with all the haswell MBAs? Or just for particular configuerations for example 8G RAM machines? Also tell us how did you guys install Mavericks, was it clean install or upgrade? I did upgrade with all my old stuff.

Hi all I have the same issues but using an older MacBook Early 2009, I was on OS X Mountain Lion and upgraded to the kind offer of free Mavericks but now I have gone from 6hrs battery time to 2hrs watching the % drain by the minute? All was fine before the update and I have used noting else other than FireFox since my last use and after the update as I have always done on my MacBook, not happy at all that I get a freebie that kills my battery time, have done a full discharge from use and a full recharge with no change, running 4gb 2.2 Core Duo MacBook?

Is there an update coming out or is this going to be a permanant setting? If so I will be reverting back to OS X M/Lion ASAP!

If this is a Spotlight issue then is there not a way to stop this programme running like you used to be able to with Windows Indexing, sorry for the swear word ( Windows ) oops my bad!

Any help would be greatly taken in as Im a newbie at Mac's sadly but still learning :-)

MrNeon,

I don't think it's indexing problem, cause I've been running Mavericks for 20+ hours, it should done with the indexing anyways.

What could the cause be then please?

And thanks for the reply skndmx

I have read on many threads it can take longer on lager drives as I have a 500gb HDD but there is only a temporary fix for this but surely if Apple had thought this new OS X out they would have guessed that stressing systems out with the battery drain and CPU usage would be a bad thing for the long run being it makes the hardware run and work faster also producing more heat which as we all know with most new systems and old they cut back on the cooling to compensate for silence? I for one am half deaf so bring on the noise and cooling but please do not kill my MacBook by battery drain kill???

I also have a SEVERE reduction in my macbook. 2010 model that was just upgraded to mavericks. 100% charge shows a battery time of 2 hours and 18 minutes with the screen dimmed to just 1 bar, no peripherals, no apps running except safari. With the iStat pro widget I am able to see that my battery is at 90% and 350 cycles. It also shows 4h and 18 min (2hr more) than the apple calculated usage time. It is plain unacceptable that I have to dim down to nothing to keep portability an option vs. using my charger connected every 2-3hrs risking my battery life / cycle count worsening.

Any thoughts? Yesterday I had at least 6-7hrs before installing Mavericks. Does apple point to a solution?

Thanks!

Mmmmmm seams to be a common thing happening here and not just down to old systems either but also new so it has to be something to do with Mavericks OS X that Apple under looked thus causing us problems to our systems and battery life, glad its not just our hardware that has failed us its Apple that has done this and needs to fix it ASAP me thinks before more official complaints get sent in.

Im not as fortnunate as most to be able to afford a top spec system so have to do with my trusty PowerBook G4 and my MacBook Core Duo.

On a side note I dont suppose anybody has G4FanControl 0.6.1 as I refuse to pay for it for a redundant system that Apple has left behind years ago to Cook in the Oven as that is what my PowerBook does is just Cook ( my legs that is ).

I'll add my same here , 2012 MBA 128 gb ssd and 4gb mem . With battery charge at 89% and only safari open with 2 tabs I am showing 4:41 time remaining

Anyone having similar problems PLEASE send feedbacks to the Apple so that they can work on this bug, or whatever it is. The link is on the first page.

Already sent in my complaints to Apple but nothing gets back as per usual blind eye to a blind ear as so to speak.

Sadly I do not see this being sorted quickly if Apple so intensively looked into and worked so hard on this new OS X in the first place???????

same issue here, i just downlaoded to mavericks and within the first 15min battery went from 100% to 90%. estimated time is about 4 hours. not sure what the issue is, otherwise im loving the update. by the way i have a 2010 macbook pro 2.4GHz 4GB RAM

... in general it only shows an estimate of less than 6 hours with just Chrome open.

There are many reports suggesting that Google Chrome is causing rapid battery depletion. Uninstall it and all of Google's many related components and observe the results.

Check your battery status menu extra. It should look like this:

With regards to your post above and in reply to my own I do not use Chrome and therefore not subject to any of its many related components thus not being the main cause of the Battery Drain sadly so not a Fix on this thread Im afraid?

Relating to third party software away from Apple's own doing is not a fix sadly?

As this is across the board on many platforms and hardware systems all using different software and useages it cannot be sent to one third party software programme like Chrome even though this may contribute to the Battery Drain Issue........Its Apple that has the fix!!!!!!!!!