Soooo true, I was going to buy a Macbook Air, but when I found out it gets about 2-3 hours battery life max, i was bummed out!
Facebook User
· 6 months ago
Last night's bar conversation: "So what do you do?" "I'm a critically acclaimed battery tester, my apartment is filled with many aluminum wrapped electronics and smells of newly christened lithium ion."
Jacob Mullins
· 6 months ago
Why didn't my damn picture/name come up from Facebook Connect?? Now logged in with Twitter connect....any better?
MG Siegler
· 6 months ago
I was trying to block your picture, actually.
Robert Wilkins
· 6 months ago
Great to see 8 hours MacBook 15 pro. I'm still going to wait until the new Arrandales chips launch in Q4 2009/Q1 2010
Jay Cuthrell
· 6 months ago
I picked up the 13" (2.53GHz/4GB) yesterday... it's better than my Air but it also weighs a lot more. So far it is looking like 4.5 to 4.75 hours but I haven't been doing an endurance run on it either.
MG Siegler
· 6 months ago
Awesome Jay - Let me know. Right now my last gen unibody 13" gets about 3.5 life on average I'd say -- but that's also with a wireless Sprint card running. 4.5 probably isn't enough to get me to upgrade, but 6 or 7 would for sure.
Jay Cuthrell
· 6 months ago
Screenshots coming up shortly... I've got the LCD dimmed, auto brightness turned off, 10.5.6 appears to have the removed the energy settings dialogs for certain hardware and 10.5.7 didn't put them back either (and not on this unit)
I'm 30 minutes from a 100% charge... the "Calculating..." made 6 hours show up at 34% battery charge so I am guessing numbers should come with a grain of salt. Be back in a bit.
Jay Cuthrell
· 6 months ago
Yep. It looks really really close to 7 hours so far with slight variations after a 100-97% charge (8h to 7h is quite a variation) but I have this set to the lowest usable brightness and I am not crunching or compiling (that's the next test) or doing any kind of heavy visual -- the unit is silent.
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"So what do you do?"
"I'm a critically acclaimed battery tester, my apartment is filled with many aluminum wrapped electronics and smells of newly christened lithium ion."
Now logged in with Twitter connect....any better?
i.e. http://www.flickr.com/photos/krema/3113608893/
I'm 30 minutes from a 100% charge... the "Calculating..." made 6 hours show up at 34% battery charge so I am guessing numbers should come with a grain of salt. Be back in a bit.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcuthrell/3623836852/
Enjoy.