Hi I have 15" i7 2.4GHz 4GB/750GB Dec 2011. Anyone else finding battery time very poor?
Charging seems to be okay and goes up to 100% with no problems. When running on battery it seems to run down very quickly. Typical was yesterday started at 97%. I only typed 7 pages of word processing, a little bit of surfing and email and by late afternoon battery was down to 6%. In between it was eother on standby or off. But over the few weeks I have had it the battery does seem to be running down quickly. My wife has 13" MacBook and battery seems much better. I see that my MacBook Pro spec is less battery time than the MacBook 13" but this does seem very poor indeed. Is this typical in your experience? Anyone done anything about it? Thanks
Actually my MBP 15" i7 2.2 battery life is very good. And that is with a SSD, original drive in a Optibay, 8GB RAM.
I do turn off bluetooth, set the screen brightness down a little and have it set to only use the intergrated graphics when on battery.
You really don't say how long it was, length of time, from 97% to 6% but even when the system is asleep it uses power.
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my phone does not have software update option on it.
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What exactly happens when you try to sync?
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