OS X Lion Battery Life

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Netphase

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I upgraded my Macbook Pro to Lion recently and it seems like the battery life dropped a lot since the upgrade.

Has anybody else here had the same issue?

I am considering a "downgrade" back to Snow Leopard.
 


Take Mac Book and place directly in to the toilet. Flush. Problem fixed!
 
Rage9 said:
Take Mac Book and place directly in to the toilet. Flush. Problem fixed!
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Interesting plan, but I would rather sell it or give it away.

I am really not a Mac fanboy. I bought this thing back in March just to see what all the Apple hype was about.

I like the build quality, battery life, and touchpad, but still prefer Windows 7 over OS X. My next notebook will most likely not be an Apple.
 
flx89 said:
you can install windows 7 on MAC Pro, if you don't like OS X Lion
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I have Windows 7 on it with bootcamp and vmware. I don't like the lack of a right click button when in Windows, even with the bottom right corner secondary click enabled. I might like it more if the secondary click space was closer to the size of a real right click button, rather than just the corner. It also gets much worse battery life in Windows 7 compared to what I was getting in Snow Leopard previously.
 
Netphase said:
I have Windows 7 on it with bootcamp and vmware. I don't like the lack of a right click button when in Windows, even with the bottom right corner secondary click enabled. I might like it more if the secondary click space was closer to the size of a real right click button, rather than just the corner. It also gets much worse battery life in Windows 7 compared to what I was getting in Snow Leopard previously.
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Two finger tap = right click. pretty natural once you get used to it.

As for the battery life in Windows 7, yeah it's less. I put a lot of time into increasing the battery life. One thing I discovered is that if you put the laptop to sleep and then wake it up, the discharge rate is higher than if you just freshly booted the machine.

After a fresh boot, at idle the drain is about 9000mW, I've got this down to 8000mW by tweaking settings (which is similar to OSX). After sleeping and waking it is 10,000mW+ continually and won't drop below that. It's likely some kind of driver issue, something isn't going into it's low power state after waking. It wouldn't surprise me if it was done intentionally by Apple, or at least intentionally neglected by Apple. Fuckin' pricks!
 
Netphase said:
I have Windows 7 on it with bootcamp and vmware. I don't like the lack of a right click button when in Windows, even with the bottom right corner secondary click enabled. I might like it more if the secondary click space was closer to the size of a real right click button, rather than just the corner. It also gets much worse battery life in Windows 7 compared to what I was getting in Snow Leopard previously.
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Lol, not heard of two finger tap?! Much better than any right click button normally provided on laptops or cmd-click or bottom right.

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If you want to go back to Windows you didn't bother learning OSX. Which is patently obvious with your grasp of the mousepad. You've got to go cold turkey and learn how it works rather than boot it and then turn on VMWare/Parallels.

Last night I bought my sister a Windows 7 Samsung (i3 2.4, 8GB) and compared to her old Sony XP machine (2.0 Centrino, 1GB) it's like an amusing joke (if jokes could be fat, slow and bloated) - if MS had evolved XP rather than thrown up Vista I would never have become a Mac user. That's a fact.

For the record, fuck Lion, I've heard it's Apple's Vista. I've only heard horror stories and my Snow Leopard works perfectly and if it ain't broke...
 
-God- said:
Lol, not heard of two finger tap?! Much better than any right click button normally provided on laptops or cmd-click or bottom right.

If you want to go back to Windows you didn't bother learning OSX. Which is patently obvious with your grasp of the mousepad. You've got to go cold turkey and learn how it works rather than boot it and then turn on VMWare/Parallels.

Last night I bought my sister a Windows 7 Samsung (i3 2.4, 8GB) and compared to her old Sony XP machine (2.0 Centrino, 1GB) it's like an amusing joke (if jokes could be fat, slow and bloated) - if MS had evolved XP rather than thrown up Vista I would never have become a Mac user. That's a fact.

For the record, fuck Lion, I've heard it's Apple's Vista. I've only heard horror stories and my Snow Leopard works perfectly and if it ain't broke...
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I have Windows installed on it, but rarely boot to it. I have been using OS X on this thing almost daily since March. My "grasp of the mousepad" is fine. I have tried the two finger tap secondary click in the past, but preferred the bottom right corner secondary click out of the two. Is it really impossible for Apple fanboys to believe that some people don't love OS X after buying a Mac and trying it?
 
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