What is going on the my battery life, after installing Mavericks, what a drain!!!
What is going on the my battery life, after installing Mavericks, what a drain!!!
They just released 10.9.1 - see if it helps!
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Thx for the help, but this did not solve the issue. 10.9.1 is installed; this morning i started with 100% battery and in 20 min of usage i dropped about 2 hrs in battery run time or from 100% to 84%. Seems like the fan is running alot more now than before the installation of Mavericks.
Start with a SMC reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
Ciao.
If there is no improvement, open Activity Monitor to ALL PROCESSES and set CPU to display values from high to low.
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Message was edited by: OGELTHORPE
You can try resetting the SMC and NVRAM.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
You can also try running the short and/or extended Apple hardware test by holding D button while booting up and then following the instructions.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
If that doesn't work (seems not extremely likely that it will) you can backup and try reinstalling a fresh OS.
If that still doesn't work maybe the battery is bad. If you don't feel like messing with all that just take it to Apple. They should have a test they can perform.
What is going on the my battery life, after installing Mavericks, what a drain!!!