Have you reported to apple yet? They really need to know this stuff. Reps I talked to seemed all surprised and clueless, even though all were friendly and willing to help.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of M. Taylor Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 4:33 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: battery life in my MacBook Pro 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: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker > Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 6:35 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > 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 > rwalker...@gmail.com > 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: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shen > Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 3:07 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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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