Mac Book air Battery Life

I recently purchased a Mac boo air 13" 8 months ago. Typically the battery would last for 12 hours, and can go days without needing a charge. In the last few days my computer has been going from 100% Charge to 30% in less than 2 hours. There are no programs running that are using significant energy. Any one have similar problems?

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), 13 inch

Posted on Apr 23, 2015 3:50 PM

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Apr 24, 2015 6:25 AM in response to Grane Duke

Problem description:

My Battery normally lasts for 12 hours when it is off the charger. Lately, it has been going from a 100% full charge to 30% in under two hours. At 100% full charge, the power usage app will tell me I have 12 hours of battery life left. Now at 100% it is saying 5 hours of battery time left. My laptop is a Macbook air 13” and it was purchased 8 months ago.


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Hardware Information: ℹ️

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014) (Technical Specifications)

MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir6,2

1 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core

8 GB RAM Not upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 69 - SN = C014292011QF90MAF


Video Information: ℹ️

Intel HD Graphics 5000

Color LCD 1440 x 900


System Software: ℹ️

OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Time since boot: 31 days 8:16:13


Disk Information: ℹ️

APPLE SSD SD0128F disk0 : (121.33 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 120.47 GB (58.43 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB


USB Information: ℹ️

Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

HP Officejet 6500 E709a

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller


Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus


Gatekeeper: ℹ️

Mac App Store and identified developers


Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.wdc.driver.1394.64.10.9 (1.0.1 - SDK 10.9) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.wdc.driver.USB.64.10.9 (1.0.1 - SDK 10.9) [Click for support]


Launch Daemons: ℹ️

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]


User Launch Agents: ℹ️

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]


User Login Items: ℹ️

iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

WDDriveUtilityHelper Application (/Applications/WD Drive Utilities.app/Contents/WDDriveUtilityHelper.app)

WDSecurityHelper Application (/Applications/WD Security.app/Contents/WDSecurityHelper.app)


Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.4 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 17.0.0.169 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

Flash Player: Version: 17.0.0.169 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9


3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

Flash Player [Click for support]


Time Machine: ℹ️

Time Machine not configured!


Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

7% WindowServer

2% fontd

2% hidd

2% Safari

1% Microsoft Word


Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

725 MB kernel_task

344 MB Safari

279 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent(3)

156 MB softwareupdated

156 MB systemstats


Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

1.53 GB Free RAM

6.18 GB Used RAM

608 MB Swap Used

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