Mavericks MacBook Air 2013 Battery Draining

Makes perfect sense.

Some people have found battery issues after an upgrade or update, most have not had this problem.

It's a specific rather than general issue.

As you said yourself it's an issue, no matter if specific or general.

And a specific issue can be really serious for those who are affected.

This is the reason why Apple should fix it for those, but it seems that they are ignoring it.

Have you taken your Mac to Apple and asked them to fix it?

Honestly no.

I had two other problems in the past with my old MacBook and they were not able to fix it or locate somehow the problem. The only thing they do is to run a hardware check and then tell you that everything is alright or you have to reinstall the OS.

I can do that on my own.

I fixed the old problems for myself with the help of forums and my knowledge.

This is the reason why I will not waste my time with the people in the stores.

Yeah, now you will probably recommend me to take advice from them...

I have no advice for you, I hear that you can do it on your own.

😁 haha

You should read my sentences. I said with my own knowledge AND the help of forums. I never said that I know everything and can fix everything on my own. This is the reason why I'm asking in forums like this one, but it seems that you do not recognize that. And at that time I just read complaints from user who have problems with the battery and it seems that there is no solution yet. Therefore I'm continuing my search for it and go on asking.

Many other users with the same problem took their Laptop to an Apple Store and for many they had no solution. I've read so many threads about complaints.

As I can see you don't want to help but just blame users.

So don't be ridiculous!

M_C_K wrote:

So don't be ridiculous!

Are you now offering advice to me?

I hope you don't mind when I ignore it.

I will not venture a guess based on an estimate, if you do not wish to supply actual figures I can not help you.

The choice is up to you.

M_C_K is there a reason you did not continue the Discussion you began regarding the problem with your MacBook Pro: Mavericks battery issues?

This Discussion was started by someone using a different Mac and a different configuration. He has never posted a single reply to it. In the absence of any response it can be assumed his problem was either solved or he lost interest in doing so.

For those reasons and others, this Discussion will not be productive for you. If you want to address your problems, I suggest that you return to yours and continue it.

Csound1 wrote:

Have you taken your Mac to Apple and asked them to fix it?

M_C_K wrote:

Honestly no.

That tells me everything I need to know, but you probably think that's being ridiculous also.

As I posted before, I had to do a clean install. Works perfectly now. Great battery life.

I've just turned off Dopbox and estimate battery life increased by few hours (at 100% ~13:42 now, before was about 10-11h).

Hello people

I have same problem with battery with my new Macbook air 2013 haswel after I face problem Macbook won't on for 24 hours even I tried many process to make it on some how with help of Apple customer care officers,how ever power on Problem solved by time as I leave my macbook for 24 hours after that tried to on and its get on, but after that i am facing other problem with battery, Battery is draining ubnormally 10% of battery drained just in 30 minutes and letf side of macbook near F keys get heated even I am only using chorome not any heavy application, charging is also taking extra time to get full charge, after full charge its still show 97% battery not 100%

Guys please help to figure out and solve problem

thanks 🙂

rzfox wrote:

I've just turned off Dopbox and estimate battery life increased by few hours (at 100% ~13:42 now, before was about 10-11h).

That's because DB is no longer running, so it's not using any power.

Model: A1260 (Early 2008 Unibody)

Battery Manufacturer: SMP

Device Name: ASMB012

Cycle Count: 620

Snow Leopard: 2 hours battery life with chrome, mail, skype... running.

Mavericks: 15 mins battery life. I can literally see the battery percentage counting down, with NO applications running.

SO to make it more clear; Apple update turned my decent laptop into a desktop... in matter of hours...

FYI Apple...

I've been having this same issue with my MBA since upgrading to Mavericks a few months ago (battery life instantly went from 8 hours to 2.5 max). Curious if anyone on this thread has upgraded to Yosemite yet, and what impact that's had? On the one hand it could resolve the issue- but I'm also terrified it might get worse (writing this aboard a cross-country flight with a broken power outlet and I'm going to miss out on a couple of hours of productivity)

It's nearly the same. However you can increase the battery life disabling some notifications, bluetooth, reducing the mic volume to 0 and doing a SMC reset twice. If it doesn't improve I strongly recommend to rollback to Mountain Lion (10.8.2), which is the OS that has lower consumption.