2016 macbook pro 15" with touch bar poor battery life

To be honestly, i did SMC and NVRAM reset for about 3-4 times for both, but i still don't think this is the main reason of battery performance solution. I didn't had such great problems like 2-3 hours of battery life, only one time of hard using i had 3:30 hours but my brightness was set to 100% and almost the whole time Mac was using dGPU instead if integrated. In every other times i had 5 hrs - 5:30 hrs - 6 hrs - 6:30 hrs even with just browsing the web and all other apps closed. Im still 100% of sure that its a software problem. System is showing 12:30 estimated time at 100% but after an hour of just only browsing the web its ~ 8 hours, but in the real world its like 6-7-8 hours from 100% to 0%.

At the brightness set to 75%, keyboard backlit at 1 click, BT is off, background apps are off, i can get 8 hours of browsing the web via safari (4-6 tabs) and do some easy stuff like Pages, Spark, iMessage, iTunes and etc.

Im not going to return my purchase, i do really love this machine, i had enough of my battery life (ofc its annoying thing in a device for ~3000$) - but i'm waiting for the update and only then i'll think about get this thing to Apple for inspection.

It does tend to go up or down on the estimates. Sometimes it stays put for a while. I'm on my 5th cycle. When I closed the lid last night I was on 3:17 on battery and showing 5 hours remaining at 65%. A decrease from earlier but as I said the estimate may go back up. I am timing the real world usage and will post up what I get at the end. Seems to be fixing itself in my eyes.

13 с тачбаром. Скачет индикатор оставшегося заряда, батарея фигово держит. С яркостью обидно и так. Мне уже с Калифорнии инженеры звонили узнавать, что да как. Но времени с ними говорить просто 0

ACGarland: I am using the same configuration with parallels VM for Win software development. Battery experience is not quite as good as yours. I have one, maybe related question. After a few hours of Parallels use, which seems to turn on the dGPU, the area above the touch bar and below the hinge gets very warm to the touch - I would estimate near 50°C. I can confirm via gfxCardStatus that dGPU is on. Do you see a similar hot spot?

Thanks.

Понимаю. А как ты добился звонка из США? Я общался только с русской тех.поддержкой, но мне ответил далеко не самый квалифицированный человек, который при любом удобном случае отправлял в тех. центр, а так как у нас работают не эппловские сотрудники в таких центрах, а "авторизованные" ребята, связываться с этим я не стал. Ну индикатор скачет и у меня, это, по сути, нормально, ведь время работы зависит от того, как использовать мак: яркость, приложения, видео и тд. А вот с тем, что батарея не держит, тут уже беда. Что планируешь делать с этим?

Same here with a brand new MBP 2016!
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So I've been working on battery this morning. A couple of observations:

1. I am showing 77% with 6:41 remaining. Not too bad.

2. gfxCardStatus is really handy! Just browsing with Safari and iGFX stays on most of the time!

Some web sites that have embedded video will switch to dGPU. If you aren't watching, it will could stay in that mode. This will of course take more battery power than iGPU. I suspect some software change to either Safari or dynamic switching could prevent this. I did notice that, if I switched it back, it seemed to stay, at least while I was on that web page.

JohnZonie:

JohnZonie wrote:

ACGarland: I am using the same configuration with parallels VM for Win software development. Battery experience is not quite as good as yours. I have one, maybe related question. After a few hours of Parallels use, which seems to turn on the dGPU, the area above the touch bar and below the hinge gets very warm to the touch - I would estimate near 50°C. I can confirm via gfxCardStatus that dGPU is on. Do you see a similar hot spot?

Thanks.

I'll have to see if I notice. So far, in my use, I haven't really noticed any area that was particularly warm (and hardly any, if any, fan operation). But when I'm working, I have it on a desktop and not on my lap where it might be more noticeable. Then again, you are asking about an area on the top surface. It could be getting warm--but I haven't noticed it in particular, although I haven't really been looking at thermal aspects except if one were to jump out at me.

So its getting really strange. It's showing 100% after "4:56" of use and 20 hrs est., but i just did open it after a sleeping mode. But even after this, for about 2 hours of web browsing only, i've lost 27% and its showing 8:30 hours left (ofc its not true). 27% for 2 hours of web browsing only. Its annoying.

So was it 27% after 2 hours or 27% after 4:56 of use total, your post is not clear.

How long (total) has it been running on the same charge?

Я в США:)

When i opened my mac after a night with charging, it showed 100% and 4:56 hours of use, but i just did open it (maybe it was power nap?). So it was 27% less (73%) after 2 hours of use total, im still on this charge at 69% and its again 20:00 est.

It shows im using it for 7:23, but i start using it when there already been 4:56. So its 2:30 hours of use and 31% energy lost

Аа, теперь понятно, я то оттуда привез его в нашу большую деревню)

No, it has been on the same charge for 4 hours 56 plus 2 hours 30, all the time counts not just the most recent time.

So the total time so far is 7 hours 24, and there is 69% of the charge left. Which = far more than 10 hours.

But i wasn't using it these 4:56 hours. I've been sleeping as the macbook. Im telling you i woke up, get it off from the charger, opened it and saw 4:56 of use at full charge