Hi. The only thing I noticed is the hot macbook pro but the battery seems alright over here. On 2011-07-24, at 4:33 PM, M. Taylor wrote:
> Hello All, > > I can definitely confirm that my 2010 MacBook Pro is running much hotter with > Lion and the batter life is not as good. > > As others have reported, I am experiencing some definite sluggishness when > typing with Alex as the Default Voice. > > Mark > On Jul 24, 2011, at 3:41 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > >> Yes, everything is absolutely identical to the way it was set in SL. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker >> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 6:35 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: battery life in my MacBook Pro >> >> Hi, >> >> are all your energy and display settings the same? IDK, maybe the rep >> really hadn't encountered such a call. Having ones >> battery life cut clean in half is probably something only experienced by a >> very small number of people who upgraded to Lion. >> >> Ricardo Walker >> [email protected] >> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 >> www.mobileaccess.org >> >> On Jul 24, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: >> >> Yes, this is precisely what I reported to the group on Friday. My battery >> life has been cut in half, and I know of at least >> two other people who are experiencing this. My macbook pro is the 2011 >> model, and where I used to get at least 8 hours >> battery life under SL, I'm now lucky to get four with lion. If you have an >> opportunity, please report this problem to Apple. >> When I called it in on Friday, the rep I talked to was willing to help, but >> acted as though nobody had ever reported such an >> issue before. >> Missy >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shen >> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 3:07 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: battery life in my MacBook Pro >> >> OK, before any of you are a bit trigger happy with the reply button, let me >> preface this message by saying that I understand >> battery life is not something that is easy to calculate. Each minute your >> MacBook can be doing different things and the power >> draw from the battery is not consistent. >> >> Having said that, I am somewhat convinced the battery life for my MacBook >> using Lion is now somewhat less than when I had >> Snow Leopard. I cannot prove it of course with easily reproduced steps. But >> at the moment, as I am writing this email, my >> battery status says 20-percent, an hour and 18 minutes remaining. >> If we calculate this up to 100-percent, we know this battery will last 390 >> minutes. >> I of course don't know what the battery life would calculate to be if >> everything is the same, and I am writing this email >> under SL instead of Lion. >> But what I do know is that under SL, my battery can give me 10 plus hours of >> nonstop usage. >> This is doing anything but running Safari. I have mid-2010 MacBook Pro. >> Again, I am not saying the battery life is definitely less, but it certainly >> feels that way. Especially when my laptop seems >> to run a little more warm than it has been in the past. >> >> I am not seeking any answers. I just want to bring this to your attention so >> you can be aware of your MacBook's battery life >> under Lion. >> I imagine this has a lot to do with what some people are saying about the >> Spotlight. Lion probably has a new way of indexing >> the files in your system and is caching it more actively than SL. I am not >> in panic mode yet. I am quite sure Apple will come >> out with an update to improve the battery life. >> For the meantime, I cannot expect the 10-hours of battery life I had before >> running SL. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. 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