MacBook Pro 2016 short battery life

Hi all,

I have the new MacBook Pro, 13 inch with touch bar, with 3.3Ghz and 16GB.

Ever since I got it I found the battery life was far from impressive.


I hardly get 4-5 hours battery life. I often have many apps open, but nothing heavy. Note I often have a windows session opened with Parallels with little going on there as well.

When I have no windows and much less apps open, I don't sense a big improvement in battery life.


The laptop is very new, obviously, and it has only 33 cycles.


I know that with higher specs, I should expect lower battery life than the 10 hours standard specs announced by Apple, but down to 4 hours? I'd be happy enough with a solid 7-8 hours. 4 hours these days is very little and frustrating. Basically means I need to plug in all the time.


Anyone with similar specs can share their battery life experience?


Cheers,

Bert

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, 4 TBT3), iOS 10.2.1, 3.3Ghz - 16BG

Posted on Mar 21, 2017 1:36 PM

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