2016 macbook pro 15" with touch bar poor battery life

Errmm no, Pages uses power at roughly 4 times the rate Word does

2nd column is power, Pages gets a .4 against Words .1

im gonna real world test this 19.5 hours I am getting. 😁

After suggestion from users here in this forum and Apple care, I decided to completely wipe off my new MacBook Pro 2016 and re-install Sierra. Battery is back to normal, the Mac doesn't heat up. And at 38 percent, the remaining is 6.29. It really makes a difference.

Good luck

My battery gives a little more then 8 hrs fully charged, but drops in just 15 minutes to about 5 hrs, only websurfing, so that wil be the more accurate estimate. Worse: when it is around 42 procent it starts draining like crazy (see screenshot), reaches 0% in about 45 minutes, then shuts down. Meanwhile the backside of the computer gets incredibly hot, so hot you can't keep it on your lap.

(In the screenshot it says the battery remained 12 hours, bull, in total it was not even 5. Although that's more then most of you seem to get, it's still way to little for a laptop that cost me 2.600 euros).

And this is what I get after a SMC-reset and a reinstall of Sierra.

This is crazy. I'm getting my money back. Luckily I still have my 2010 MBA.

It is still indexing stuff. I can see on the screenshot that Spotlight is using lot of power. Wait and see. It might change after indexing.

I am also having an issue with Battery capacity. I am interested in checking some information with the people on this thread. What is your AC Charger outputting for power? It is suppose to be a 87 Watt Output but I am not seeing anything over 60W; and I have 3 to 4 hours of capacity.

Would you kind people share your output Wattage and if your battery is suffering low capacity or normal capacity please? You can find it by plugging in your MacBook Pro with the AC Charger and then going to 'About this Mac' > System Report > Power > AC Charger Information (Scroll to the bottom) > Wattage.

Thank you.

The computer under charge controls how much power is used (how much is needed at the time) so comparing charger outputs is not relevant.

Thank you for the reply Csound1;

I understand but I would think that if the CPU/GPU were under heavy loads and the battery was charging I would expect to see close to 87 Watts output. I am seeing 60W max under heavy loads and I am also seeing the Battery Discharge (down to 4% before throttling back the CPU) under this condition over a few hours. However a friend of mine had this issue and it suddenly resolved, his AC Charger is outputting 85 Watts during the initial charge cycle, (as expected).

The AC Charger has a max output of 20.2V and 4.3 Amps making 86.86 Watts, (87 Watts). CPU/GPU loads aside, a depleted battery will consume higher loads for the initial 80% of the charge under Constant Current Mode before switching to Constant Voltage Mode in the last 20% of the charge cycle. The system reports the battery C at 6.774 Amp Hours (the Full Charge Capacity in mAh); so these batteries should be able to be charged at 1C or 6.774 Amps, well outside of the AC Charger's ability. So if a battery were depleted below 80% of the charge, (in the Constant Current range), the AC Adapter should be running full tilt to charge the battery; and then slow down for the last 20% of the charge (the constant voltage range).

Under Battery conditions I am seeing an average load of 1 to 2 Amps, (0.75 an amp with the screen very low, and the BT and WiFi off). Being very conservative a Battery Charge cycle of 0.3C or 2 Amps and a running system in the 1 1/2 Amp range would be about 70 Watts; well over the 60W I seem to be capped at.

My point is under a full CPU/GPU load and during the first 80% of the charge cycle the AC Charger should be outputting well over 60W. Wouldn't you agree?

Don't the 13 inch models use 60W with smaller batteries?

Thank you.

As I don't have access to that specific information I won't guess.

Thanks for the details. I have noticed similar lower energy requirements with Parallels.

Here is a screen shot to show what I am trying to describe; Notice that once I start putting the MacBook under a heavy load the system has to start drawing from the Battery to keep up, (1.148 Amps of battery draw), while the AC Charger is still showing 60W of power output.

I am not convinced that either the onboard Charging Circuit or the AC Charger is working as intended.

Thank you for your time.

Make sure that you are charging with the Apple charging cable (which is only USB2 for data) rather than just any old USBC cable (which can run data at USB3 speeds but be sub optimal for charging).

Thank you Art M. for the reply.

At the time of my order I ordered an extra AC Charger and an extra Apple Charge Cable (2M). Both AC Chargers have the same Hardware Version and Firmware Versions. I have tried all combination of the AC Chargers and the Apple Charge Cables with the same results; 60W maximum output.

I have also tried the Apple supplied Belkin Thnderbolt 3 Cable (0.5M).

Are you seeing 87W output from your charger and are you experiencing low Battery Life?

Thank you for the suggestion.

I just took delivery of my new 13" rMBP with Touch Bar a few days ago. Thus far, I'm consistently getting 6 hours (or less) on a full charge with very light use. I did a video only test (two movies playing on repeat) yesterday, trying my best to replicate the settings that Apple list on their own product marketing pages, and I got 5.5 hours vs. "up to 10 hours".

Hopefully, this will be remedied with a software/firmware update very soon.

I'm running the latest beta build of 10.12.2.