Full Battery is 2 Hours MacBook Air 2014

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Full Battery is 2 Hours MacBook Air 2014

Bough my Macbook air in August of 2014; battery life has been running fine and haven't had overheating problems. Recently (March 2015), after updating my MacBook air to OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 operating system, it has been overheating constantly on the left side of the notebook and at a full charge, the battery only lasts 2.5 hours max. Is this a seriously problem that I should contact someone at Apple, make an appointment with a genius about, or just drain the battery and recharge it the full battery and hope for the best? Thank you.

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 19, 2015 4:38 PM

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stedman1

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Mar 19, 2015 4:42 PM in response to tmarron12

The Apple article below may help.

Runaway applications can shorten battery runtime, affect performance, and increase heat and fan activity - Apple Support

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VikingOSX

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Mar 19, 2015 4:48 PM in response to tmarron12

Have a 2014 (May) MBA with OS X 10.10.2. Get 12 hours on it with 22 - 25% remaining. This includes hourly USB3 Time Machine backups.

If Stedman1's link isn't enough, consider setting up an appointment with an Apple Store (you are still within your 12 mo warranty, more if Apple Care). You may also have a hardware issue.

You haven't said what you are doing on your machine when you get the heat problem? What do the Energy, CPU, and Memory tabs report in Activity Monitor?

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tmarron12 Author

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Mar 19, 2015 5:08 PM in response to VikingOSX

The CPU for my notification center is 151.8%. It says that if anything is over 70% its putting significant load on your laptop. I don't know how to make it any less and I'm starting to really worry ahah! -- Update: I just figured out how to quit process hopefully that helps.

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stedman1

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Mar 19, 2015 5:09 PM in response to tmarron12

While viewing Activity Monitor, select "Notification Center" and then "Quit". After this is done, restart the computer to see if things have improved. Post back with results.

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