2016 macbook pro 15" with touch bar poor battery life

Memory in will vary depending on what is cached. In other words, you can't tell how much memory 'should' be in use just based on what programs are running. A computer which is using memory in its most efficient way will have memory almost full at all times.

I did an SMC reset once and no change. I did it a second time along with a PRAM reset. I then let the computer recalibrate itself as far as it's estimations of power usage goes and I saw a dramatic increase in both estimated time as well as huge real world gains.

This what I was I was seeing a few days ago. The morning before I was working on battery for the first time with email and a few safari tabs up and running and my computer died in less than 3 hours.

After the few SMC and PRAM resets, I set out on seeing if it had changed. I had Mail, Messages, and 5-10 Safari tabs including a Soundcloud tab streaming music the whole time and an online stopwatch running. I started the stopwatch when I unplugged my computer. Screen brightness was set to just over half.

Nearly 6.5 hours later I still had 32% battery.

2.7GHz/12GB/2TB model.

This morning i charged my 2016 MBP 15" to 100%. The estimated remaining hours were something like 10:XX . I was pleased to see this as I though the problem had been finally solved. To my surprise, the hours remaining just kept decreasing. After approximately 4 hours of use it is at 28% and discharging really fast. Are the discharging watts normal?

There are probably a few culprits here, depending on the situation, and no ONE solution for all:

1. Some faulty batteries (requires a Mac to be returned)
2. Migration issues when set-up via Migration Assistant (do clean install and manual migration)
3. dGPU issues: the dGBU kicks in unnecessarily or does not shut off (when no longer needed 15" only); I presume this could be fixed with a software patch
4. faulty GPU (requires Mac to be returned).

I have no issues on my 15/2.9/460/1T with battery life. Estimator shows around 9-11 hrs typically (but that is a snapshot of what runs at the time and not necessarily a good prediction). Real usage anywhere between 6-9 hrs pending what is running.

One thing to check: in Photos the dGPU runs when I am connected to a charger, but shuts off when I am on battery within seconds. it may hang for others as I read some comments

So I have the TMBp 15" fully built out edition.

Initially I used migration wizard to move data from my old mac book air to this new TMbp. I would get crappy battery results. Roughly 3-6 hours. That was not acceptable for me. I started researching and I noted that people that setup their laptop brand new (those that did not migrate any data over) had the best battery life results. I saw one guy posting screenshots of 14.5 hours while he was off the charger for 1 hour.

The intent for me was to wipe it clean and start with a fresh sierra install, So I restarted hit Command R and held it, then booted into recovery mode. Selected reinstall sierra. I let it run and this morning I have been showing 17 hours on 100 percent charge. The result of this above procedure was no loss in any personal data and application were still installed. I didn't actually delete the partition using disk utility. So effectively OS X just reinstalled over itself.

I figured that this may be a false positive, but after one hours of usage and doing light browsing with sierra including writing this response, after two hours it corrected itself to 13.5 hours, and in some cases went back up to 14 hours 20 minutes.

Set applications that constantly hammer away at the battery to not run on startup (dropbox, etc)

I also turned off bluetooth as well as disabled time machine.

And keep an eye out on the energy tab in activity monitor for applications that "Require High Performance GPU"

I am currently doing real world testing to see just how long the battery will last.

But this is worth a shot.

Update:

almost 5 hours in and still high enough percentage..

Also note that I am using half the wattage you are using Leo

Fwiw, I did not migrate anything from a previous laptop, brand new with all new apps......still crappy battery life

Do you think i should try re-installing sierra? Did all your applications remain the same? What procedure did you follow? Almost 30 minutes have passed from my last post and my battery level has gone to 19% from 28%. Battery usage has is off the charts, take a look at this. I downloaded the same program as you have just to compare.

Before I returned my 13" MBP 16/i7/256 yesterday I did everything. Adjusted everything I was told, reset, reinstalled Sierra beta, and regular Sierra all with the same results.. Went to Apple store, they tested everything, adjusted everything and same results.. they basically said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.. Said thats what they have been seeing (unacceptable) between 3 1/2 to 4 hours with mixed use, emails, web, a few YouTube videos. This is a huge issue that I only think Apple can fix via new units or some big SW fix

Power usage is clearly off the charts. Is your dGPU running all the time? Which processes can you identify in Activity Monitor that eat power?

This is my second machine already. I returned the first one (15",256,450) because it was casually freezing and battery life was horrible. At least the second one does not freeze, just has bad battery life. To be honest, i do not think that this is a hardware problem. There are many cases of people reporting poor battery life, some others are just fine and achieve the 9-10 Hr statement so in my opinion this indicates it's a software problem. Also programs such as Battery Health etc. report the battery is 100% healthy, so there's another argument that this is software related.

I have the graphics switching enabled, so under normal conditions the dGPU should be off. I'm just watching videos in youtube. Here is my activity monitor.

Above is my current snapshot with the following apps open/running: photos, safari tabs, iTunes, mail, finder, word.

This is a 15"/2.9/460/1T

Real world usage is 8-9 hrs.

Welcome to the club.. And don't expect anything better than 4hrs during real-world usage.. (until Apple addresses this mess)

Did you re-install Sierra, reset SMC or PRAM or anything else? Or does the battery work like it should ?

No. I did a clean install (i.e. manual data migration from a Late 2008 MacBook and did not use migration assistant). Just works as it should, I presume.