1% for 2 minutes
Hello! I've recently bought Air. At the moment I'm using only safary, and i haven't used any apps yet. I just can't understand why it loses 1% of battery's charge in 2 minutes if it has to work for 7 hours? Is it broken? Or i did something wrong? looking forward for reply, coz I have only 2 weeks to send it back to shop if it's broken.
The 7 hours of battery life is an estimate based on a fairy tale use of the computer, though with care you should be able to get between 5 and 6 hours of use on a charge. That's the bad news. The good news is that Apple's estimate is more realistic than any PC manufacturers'. Furthermore, your battery indicator is also less than reliable in that you might notice a drop, as you did, of a percentage or two in a couple minutes and then notice that it says at the same spot for the next several minutes.
Stop worrying about the battery and enjoy using the computer. And to get the best time from the battery keep your backlight low, keep BlueTooth and WiFi off as much as you realistically can, and use the energy saver tab of System Preferences to make the computer sleep after just a couple minutes of inactivity.
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