I understand, but for battery life to be cut nearly in half just isn't acceptible. I can't blame wifi; used it on battery in the exact same manner under snow leopard, and like I said, I always got 8 hours, if not a little more. Still, I'm not going to downgrade just yet. I don't know how, and since I typically prefer to keep mac plugged in anyway, I guess it isn't a huge crisis yet. I will be travelling in a couple of weeks, though, so was hoping to keep the mac portible during my trip. I guess I'll have to pack the ac adapter now, just in case. Thanks for your response, though. I really do appreciate it. I wonder why you're not running into this particular issue, though. Missy
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Miller Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: battery life under lion Hi Missy, I haven’t experienced that significant of a battery drainage yet, but there is a difference. Also, I wouldn’t advise downgrading to LS just on that issue alone, give apple time to work out the various kinks. Your mac may have been doing others things using Wifi without you knowing, especially since you had twitter running, etc. The amount of battery life you actually get and what the OS says you’re going to get is almost always wrong, keep that in mind as well. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Missy Hoppe Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 1:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: battery life under lion Hello, all! I've just found a major, major problem with lion, and am wondering if anyone else has experienced it yet. This one is almost serious enough to make me want to run back to snow leopard, but I'm not entirely sure how to do that, but my questions and concerns regarding downgrading aren't what I wanted to post about here. I have a 2011 macbook pro mc724LLA. Before lion, I was getting around 8 hours of battery life with screen brightness at 0 and just leaving the mac idle to check twitter and things. I'd use it from time to time for other tasks, and even then would get around 8 hours of productivity on a fully charged battery. Well, I decided this morning that I would let it run on battery for a little while; I typically just leave my macbook plugged into an outlet since it primarily lives on a desk in my dining room. Still, I try to drain the battery at least once every week or two so that it will be in good shape if I ever do need to travel. Anyway, I disconnected the AC adapter as I usually do, and then checked the status menu. It told me I was going to get nearly 10 hours off the battery charge. I was pretty excited; figuring that I could leave it running happily all day on battery. Well, no such luck. About 4-5 hours later, I went to see if I had missed any direct messages or anything on twitter, and the macbook was completely dead. Nothing I pressed would respond at all. I plugged in the ac adapter, and everything came back to life, and now it's 1 hour 24 minutes til the battery is fully charged. So, I guess my question is this: has anyone else noticed seriously reduced battery life on their macbooks? I had one friend on twitter confirm that he's experiencing the same problem, so am almost definite that this isn't just me. If I find one more flaw in lion, I am going to figure out how to downgrade to snow leopard, that's for sure! Well, I guess that's it for now. I hope that everyone is having a really wonderful day, and I'm really enjoying all the talk about taming the lion. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
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