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>This newer 2013 MacBook Air is holding up much better than the 2012 model, and I'm consistently still getting 6-8 hours of life out of the battery at least. I
by jervisfm 12y ago
>This newer 2013 MacBook Air is holding up much better than the 2012 model, and I'm consistently still getting 6-8 hours of life out of the battery at least.
It may be just my usage patterns but I never seem to get more than 4 hours on the 2013 Air. I mostly have a fair number of Chrome tabs along with a terminal window open and that seems to be enough to drain the batter rather quickly.
- fjarlq 12y agoHave you tried Safari? I hear it is more energy efficient: http://thetypist.com/482/chromefree/ http://thetypist.com/482/chromefree/ Allowing Flash to autoplay is wasteful as well.
- wiredfool 12y agoChrome + many tabs is the biggest power draw on my 2013 Air, followed by my Virtualbox vms.
- rsynnott 12y agoChrome for MacOS seems to be quite badly behaved; you should see better results with Safari.