Appalling experience with MacBook Pro 2016

Although I encountered not that much trouble, I really am disappointed with the battery life: approx. 4 hrs. My previous Mac Air started with 12 hrs and is now around 5 to 6 hrs. All the rest is nice, Apple-like, but what to do about this battery capacity? The sold it to me with 10 hrs, that is ok, 4 hrs is not enough for a working day...

Another issue I forgot: on battery the Mac becomes pretty "hot", top middle. If you use it on your "lap", this is not amusing, but rather a sweaty experience. Anyone encountering the same? Thanks.

Heat means that you're using a lot of energy and this would explain why you're getting short battery life.

Have you tried using Activity Monitor to see what's going on with your system that's causing it to work so hard? There could be something running in the background that is causing this. I use iStat Menus to keep an eye on things and while just browsing the Internet, my CPU runs at about 80-degrees F and the GPU at 95. Mine would go crazy when it tried to hibernate and after restarting it, the temps would be 140 degrees.

On my original machine, I got at a minimum 8 hours on battery and a couple of times it did about 9.5, so it's generally been where I expected it to be.

Good luck!

Take it back to the shop. To me it seems is not working properly.

Well, the replacement system has successfully gone into hibernation and woke up just fine, so I'm way ahead of where the original unit was. Back to being in good ol' trusty MacBook Pro land!

If I get brave over the weekend, I will enable SIP to see if that works or could be the source of my original problem.

My issue is pretty much the exact same as you. machine goes to sleep, or sort of, and I go back to use it but the screen never comes back on. Keyboard lights up, and the touchbar does sometimes as well. I have to hold power to kill it, and start up again. incredibly frustrating. My errors are like yours as well:

Last login: Fri Dec 2 20:14:15 on console

Shannons-MBP:~ shannon$ pmset -g log | grep Failure

2016-12-02 19:15:11 -0600 Failure Drivers Failure during wake due to PEG0(AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AppleHDAController),RP01(AirPort_Brcm4360):

2016-12-02 19:41:18 -0600 Failure Drivers Failure during wake due to PEG0(AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AppleHDAController),IGPU(AppleIntelFramebuffer),RP01(AirPort_Brcm4360

2016-12-02 19:54:37 -0600 Failure Drivers Failure during wake due to PEG0(AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AppleHDAController),IGPU(AppleIntelFramebuffer),RP01(AirPort_Brcm4360

2016-12-02 20:14:02 -0600 Failure Drivers Failure during wake due to PEG0(AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AMDFramebufferVIB AppleHDAController),RP01(AirPort_Brcm4360):

Shannons-MBP:~ shannon$

If you search online for: Drivers Failure during wake due to PEG0 you'll see people experiencing such issues before this model of machine, but with recent OS versions. I am hoping it's driver/software related and thus resolvable. However, I am not going to wait long for resolution.

Just out of curiosity, have you enabled System Integrity Protection on your MBP or checked to see if it's enabled?

Other than the hardware swap that I did, that's the only difference in my now working system vs. the previous one that exhibited the sleep issues, so it might be worth a check. Perhaps this is the reason that they are shipping with it disabled.

I've had my replacement machine for a few days now. This one came with SIP turned on by default.

Unfortunately it's exhibiting the same exact problems my old machine had: much shorter than expected battery life, and overall sluggishness. The sluggishness seems to be coming from the "windowserver" process. Sometimes it exceeds 100% cpu and brings the UI of the computer to a complete crawl. I swear I've tried **** near everything to figure out the cause.

As for the battery issue, it's possible that windowserver is causing the problem...I really won't know until that issue is solved first.

I'm removing my response here because I replied before I had noticed the rest of the thread!

You can try some of these tips to see if they will alleviate the problem for some temporary relief.

http://osxdaily.com/2015/04/06/windowserver-high-cpu-usage-mac-os-x/

Yesterday, I went ahead and enabled System Integrity Protection on my replacement system and, so far, I have not seen any negative effects.

It would seem that my original system may have had some actual hardware problems, though I've never seen hardware problems manifest themselves in such a manner before.

Similar experience. Mine would crash when copying files, Mail would crash. But then it went BLACK for no reason and I had to bring it to Apple store for 48-hour tests. Possible results:

1. They find a specific problem and replace something.

2. They give me a new machine, which will likely have the same issue.

3. I say screw it, and buy a top end PC laptop for half the price.

Pardon me while I go check on prices for high end PC laptops.

Thanks, Apple. We had a good run. Jobs was an arrogant *****, but very smart. Now Apple is still arrogant, but not so smart. Can't even make a computer that runs.

jsachs99 wrote:

Similar experience. Mine would crash when copying files, Mail would crash. But then it went BLACK for no reason and I had to bring it to Apple store for 48-hour tests. Possible results:

1. They find a specific problem and replace something.

2. They give me a new machine, which will likely have the same issue.

3. I say screw it, and buy a top end PC laptop for half the price.

Pardon me while I go check on prices for high end PC laptops.

Thanks, Apple. We had a good run. Jobs was an arrogant *****, but very smart. Now Apple is still arrogant, but not so smart. Can't even make a computer that runs.

Curiosity here:

Prior to installing any additional software and your files - did you check for operating system updates from apple?

After they were installed - same for any software you loaded.

And last but not least - how long did you wait for your stuff to be installed.

MDworker-spotlight may be indexing everything. or trying to update everything -

Jobs wanted pretty over functional - and Apple is still running under a direction he set up.

I did look at some Windows machines - once I was past the adds -- didn't care for their direction.

My system failure occurred many days after installing Adobe and Microsoft cloud software suites. Apple store gave up and replaced my machine with new one. I am hoping this one continues to function.

You might want to reconsider your MacBook Pro. It appears that Apple has identified and corrected the problem and the update will be out soon with macOS 10.12.2.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/12/07/macos-10-2-2-fixes-time-machine-backup-crash ing/