Q: Short Battery Life of MBA Early 2015
I have a Early 2015 MBA. Two weeks ago suddenly from the battery lasting almost all day it now lasts less than 3 hours and the underside gets extremely hot. It has only been through 201 Battery Cycles. Took to apple store last week and they ran some tests but could not find any obvious issues. Battery shows as NORMAL. They suggested upgrading to El Capitan 10.11.3 which I did with no change. (I did not install and change any software prior to this happening)
If I power off, fully charge overnight, turn on with only Email, Safari (no windows open), and Activity Monitor running it shows right off the bat a Time Remaining on battery of only 3 hours. They could not find anything unusual running in the background to cause this low battery setting at startup.
When this was new even if I was running Safari, Email, Acrobat, Photoshop at the same time the underside stayed fairly cool-warm. Never Hot like it is now. I also could get at least 6-8 hours of run time. Something is not right.
Any suggestions.
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
Posted on Feb 22, 2016 4:20 AM