I came on here out of frustration and lack of time to do the legwork hoping for an easy answer and like always I tend to find my own answers to my own questions.
WINDOWS 10 ON MAC BATTERY LIFE SUCKS UPDATE
I plan to update and try again, this tells me it is Software related the question is that an Update or one of my menu bar apps? I currently have, istat menu, which, OWC doc ejector, max fan control (currently disabled), Obsidian, LastPass, Coconut battery menu bar, slim battery monitor, Display menu (app Store app), background app Quicksilver. After installing a completely clean OSX I can report that when I unplugged at 9AM and opened it back up at 7:30 PM I was still at 100% with the keyboard cover on. I'm now at 59 cycles.Įdit:4/06: Update new information! I repartitioned my drive I mean added a “new volume” I have enough space thankfully. So I don't know what's causing it the only thing I haven't gone through is my menu bar items. completely black screen battery icon dead. I Grabbed my laptop this morning I think at 10 put it in my bag, went and did some errands, stopped at a few stores, went to work, got back home and finally got it out of the bag again to find…. could it be that simple? The keyboard getting bumped just enough to wake up during sleep?Įdit:4/03 well no.
Well I did not close firefox, and I did not close mail, and I did not turn Wi-Fi off, I removed the keyboard protector!…. I've been working 8 to 5 M-F so I barely get around to fully reading and replying to things.Įdit:4/01 I left at 9 and I got back home at 7:30 pm…… 98%. Here is a picture of coconut and activity monitor right after opening.
Got back at 7pm I opened my bag to find a space heater, again.
Either way it'll be fully charged in an hour or two and definitely by morning.Įdit:3/29 I Left at 7:30 this morning closed everything except for text edit and activity monitor. I know the dock is a lower wattage 60W, apple adapter 90W but I'm not really pushing things at the moment either. I have occasionally had a process hang the whole system and prevent sleep which is what this feels like but the system is not hung and I can wake it back up fine.Įdit:1: Here is a snippet of Coco battery, not sure how that's going to help as this is literally only happening when I'm not using the computer. at that point in the HOT seasonal weather I will usually bring my backpack in to the cool buildings with me, then again I did not have this problem with my previous one or any of the other systems I have. The only thing that's reading significant power usage is Firefox but if firefox was closed why am I finding my computer with less than 15% and extremely hot from work load ( is it uploading all my data to the “iCloud” (I don't use) probably you know “privacy and security for three letter agency”.Īnd yes I do know about hot vehicles being a bad thing we are not in that season where I live yet and it's actually been reasonably chilly the last couple of weeks and we're finally getting some warmth. Not to mention right to repair But I digress.
WINDOWS 10 ON MAC BATTERY LIFE SUCKS WINDOWS
And would've went windows if it weren't for software compatibility, I planned on this one being my last Mac as Apple really screwed up some stuff after OSX 10.6. On my previous Mac I only lost a couple of percent, at this rate I'm cycling the battery just about every day! I'm on 54 cycles on a machine that I've had less than six months. So far on the last test I only had mail, preview, terminal, text edit and Thunderbird open. I need to test with both closed but haven't gotten there yet. I first thought it was firefox so I closed it and tryed it again the next day but it still did it, I thought it was Thunderbird … rinse and repeat close the app and just had firefox open and same. I unplug my computer from an OWC thunderbolt 3 dock in the morning and the battery reads at 100% fully charged, put it in my backpack, put my backpack in the car and hopefully not need the computer.ĩ hours later I get home pull my computer out of my backpack to find that I have 20% and all day my computers been cooking in my backpack doing something to kill the battery.
Just recently finally I saved up enough and bought myself a nice 2019 MacBookPro (16,1) 16 inch and finally upgraded from a (5,3) 15 inch and at 12 years old and still running I've never had to close Firefox and mail to keep my battery from draining during sleep.