Hi all,
I just bought Macbook Air 2013 this Januray 2014. Mavericks OS was installed. Within 3/4 months battery drain very fast. Battey last about 4-5 hours!! But it should be 12 hours according to Apple. Its very disappoitning with a macbook! We people buy Apple product for better and long time use but....!!
Don't know what should do now! any suggestion please?
Thanks,
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 13 inch, 128 HDD, 4GB RAM
This should help a lot. Read it carefully.
Thanks Sberman. I have read your link and i can see that only Spotlight program using 37% energy and MS office is about 21% and others are 0.2, 0.06..%. Normally i dont watch movie or any program which consume more energy. I just work on MS office and browse internet by using google chrome.
Anyway, so is that Spotlight is important program or what is the function of it? can i remove it or uninstall? if so, is there any problem for mac or it's supporting program for others?
thanks,
Excellent analysis!
Let's discuss Spotlight. When you first install Mavericks, Spotlight spends some time re-indexing your volumes as described here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2409
This process may take a while, and if you suspect it is not working quite right, you can restart it as indicated in the article.
This article shows how to confirm that Spotlight is indexing and explains more about Spotlight:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3721
Spotlight is a major feature of Mac and cannot and should not be uninstalled.
Regarding MS Office, I see you say you use it a lot. But as you can see, it is a real resource hog. You might consider using Apple equivalents, especially Mail instead of Outlook (if you use Outlook). But that decision is yours.
The same is true of Chrome. It also uses plenty of resources. You probably have your reasons, but I don't understand why someone would choose Chrome instead of Safari on a Mac. It's your choice - using Chrome is fine if you like, but it is a resource hog.
Thanks. So, i will not uninstall spotlight. I shall read your provided aritlce as well. I don't get what you mentioned about using MS office instead of....(in my case).
Why I or people use Google chrome instead of Safari, because safari is slower 🙂 my friend also said so. But i personally like Safari.
thanks,
I will clarify what I mean regarding MS Office. Each Office app has an Apple equivalent app:
Word has an Apple equivalent on the Mac - Pages
Excel has an Apple equivalent on the Mac - Numbers
PowerPoint has an Apple equivalent on the Mac - Keynote
Outlook has an Apple equivalent on the Mac - Mail
The Apple equivalent apps can produce similar outputs and read similar inputs to their Microsoft counterparts. (This may not be completely true for Outlook and Mail.) But the Apple apps use a whole lot less battery than the Microsoft apps.
and how do you think if i back to old version Mountain Lion? will it be helpful for longer battery life? if do so, then how about licenced softwares that i bought...will those work? i have bought some softwar for my research.
thanks,
I would definitely not recommend going back. As I say, the Spotlight indexing will end reasonably soon. It is a one-time exercise - until your next major operating system upgrade or disk change. You would also have a one-time extended use of your Time Machine backup (I hope you do keep backups and do use Time Machine to do so.)
So I suppose you should live with Office. Again, I don't know if you have Outlook - if you do, you might consider stopping your use of it and switch that to Apple Mail. But I don't really know if that will stop Outlook's extensive resource use.
Anyway, I recommend you do not go back to an older OS X version.
Thanks. by the way, are you working on Apple? It would be great if i can get another MBA as replacement. is it possible? It's only 3 months i bought so i would hope battery backup should be 12 hours or min.10 hrs!
according to energy analysis (given by you), there is no big application running which may consume more energy. Only Spotlight (about 37%), its not much and you said, it might be disable soon.
thanks,
I do not work for Apple.
My guess of the possibility you would get a "replacement" is zero.
You do run "big applications" compared to, for example, what I run. You run Google Chrome. You run Microsoft Office.
Battery drain!!
