After installing lion, battery life cut by 75% and browser speed slowed to a crawl

My Mac Book Pro was working perfectly fine until I installed Lion. Now my battery life has been cut but a least 75% (only lasts about 45 minutes on a full charge) and it has also affected the speed of my browser.
Can anyone help?

There is a 190 page thread discussing the battery life and health issues assocaited with ML that you will find in this forum located here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4135250?start=0&tstart=0 . Some people have had some success in installing the ML 10.8.2 combo pack over their 10.8.2 instance. Some have had success in performing a clean install. Others still have problem, and others have moved back to Lion or SL. In your posting, are you saying you've installed Lion or Mountain Lion? I'm assuming that latter. I've recently reverted back to Lion until I have more confidence that Apple has tackled the issue.

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My macbook pro battery life is tremendously reduced after installing lion os x

I installed Lion OS X on macbook pro 13 inch- i7
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When I was using the snow leopard, it was said 6 hours which is fine.
How to solve this problem please.
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Hi all, thought i share some of my battery related issues i have with Lion.
As everybody already noticed, even my battery life took a deep dive into nothing really. From steady 5 hours to 2 hours !? I use my mac a lot on battery, and i can make it through the day whitout even touching a charger. But .. now that has apparently changed.
So, what i found out after installing Lion is 3 things ..
#1 "Kill your daemons" .. after i examined the Citrix fix, which i didn't had installed i had a look at what daemons i had loaded, and found a lot of google ones. So i killed those, whenever a use chrome i just have to manually check for updates. No biggie.
#2 "Battery calculation is different" Yeah, it really is .. it seems like they changed the way the calculation is done. Its more dynamic now, and it taking in consideration more about what you're doing atm on your mac. When iam writing this my battery is at 70% and i says that i have 4 hours left. When i start to surf for example it drops to 2 hours. I did the battery calc reset, altho it got a little better but not good still.
#3 "Dynamic switching" Nasty one, it seems that after i upgraded to Lion my Dynamic switching of the GPU stopped to work. All settings was according to the book, but still i had my AMD chosen all the time, which explains the furnace i got on my lap all of a sudden. So, since by default there is no way to switch the GPU i downloaded the gfxCardStatus that did the trick for me, temperature dropped radically and my battery time went up of course.
So, now iam back to almost 70% of capacity before installing Lion, and that with doing nothing other than just install Lion !. I know there is issues with Flash, and most likely there will be a fix soon from Apple and Adobe that fixes our battery issues.
Then there is the wifi issues, that everyone seems to have in different forms and shapes, so basically Lion needs a haircut and a shave.

Anyone else having battery life issues after installing Lion?

Anyone else having battery life issues after installing Lion?

Blue Sun Wing wrote:
I have 7.1
I think I would like to uninstall Lion as well. I'd rather have my battery life back.
See if this is helpful: http://www.iphone-my.com/mac/downgrading-lion-snow-leopard/

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After installing Lion my battery life has halved! Anybody else having this problem? What can we do about it?, After installing Lion my battery life has halved! Anybody else having this problem? What can we do about it?

Having a similar issue…
MBP late 2008 version (MacBookPro 5,1)
Was running OS X 10.6.8 and getting about 2.5 hours battery life on average
Installed Lion and now I can watch the battery draining almost in real time! For example, from fully charged tonigh to 69% in 20 mnutes. I'm usings Watts (an excellent replacement for the built in Battery indicator) and it indicates approximately 1 hour left… so since the Lion upgrade battery life has almost halved.
It doesn't seem to matter how many apps are open and whether they are in full screen mode or not, the battery drain is the same.
I have reset the SMC. I have calibrated the battery. I've used the Recovery Partition to check and repair permissions and veruify/repair the HDD used for Lion. All to no avail.
As a further example, since starting to type this post, battery percentage has gone from 69% to 64%… and I'm not a slow typist!
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What was happened?
I'm using iCloud and Time Mashine. A few days before, my iMac (10.7.5) had some errors, and than suddenly, it didn't start again. I've tried to reinstall from Time Mashine, but after about 60%, it had quit with an error. It might been an HD error, so I did an secure erase (with Disc Utility). After that, I booted from my USB with 10.7.4 installer and have installed Lion, restarted, and than there it was: All former user accounts and programs are back! I've thought, I has got crazy. But now, I hope, someone can explain me, what has happend.
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McDonney11 wrote:
Haha. My appologies, I shall 'plug' my devices as oposed to 'popping' them infuture.
No worries, it was late, I was a little loopy and having a little fun while trying to help. You just keep poppin' away!
Well we are on the same page my friend haha.
Good to hear.
I completed a fresh install of Lion on my HDD and migrated my data over with the migration assitant and all has worked well. Not flawlessly however all problems I encountered I could get past with a little thinking.
I must say the computer is running so much better now (touch wood, I dont want to post this and have my computer crash xD). No more spinning beach ball, no more waiting excessively for apps to launch. In terms of speed it appears it is now close to the way SL used to be (of course I dont expect it to be on par as Lion is a new OS which is yet to be refined).
Excellent!
In terms of battery life I cannot comment, I am yet to use the computer for a period of time on battery. I will report back when I do so, most likely in a day or so (if that).
I must recommend that if anyone is experiancing slow downs of their Mac after installing Lion, and it is obviously not Spotlight indexing to blame, that they try this. It does appear to improve general speed.
That is good for many people to know, so thank you.
I do hope Apple release updates and patches for Lion quite soon, it still has bugs in my mind.
I have no information on it, but I would bet on it.
Thanks for all of your help tjk, your a star!
Wow, those are kind words. Thank you, and you are quite welcome.

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