Comments on: MacBook Air 2010 11″ and 13″ Battery Life Better Than Advertised

By: ilias

ilias — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:23:06 +0000

So you Love watching adds over the internet! Good for you!
You are a good customer. I hope u click on them as well

By: zorkor

zorkor — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:58:00 +0000

It’s quite funny and amusing to see so many Apple fan boys scares of flash. Me being a PC guy love to watch flash videos all the time. This what makes my PC purchase worth to so whatever I want instead
Of blocking everything and boast around of having more battery life.

I might get an iMac and on the portable side, I will keep using my Windows 7 laptop.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 22 May 2011 21:37:50 +0000

My 11″ MBA battery has 60 cycles and about 96% health. It only lasts about 2 hours using MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, and that’s if I dim the screen and turn off the bluetooth and wifi. If I watch multiple streaming videos on Firefox, it only lasts like 45 minutes. I’m really disappointed. For all of you with short battery life, how many cycles do you have?

By: Denver

Denver — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:17:05 +0000

How long does the battery life last when running windows via bootcamp and doing programing for say android or ms in vis studio?

By: Show Remaining Battery Life in the Mac OS X Menu Bar

Show Remaining Battery Life in the Mac OS X Menu Bar — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:12:20 +0000

[...] your battery life, like Flash in an inactive browser tab. I’ve been trying to achieve the 7 hour battery life but so far the highest I can hit on this MacBook Air is about 5 hours with light [...]

By: Armando

Armando — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:18:47 +0000

installed Flash and boy was that a mistake on it’s own, immediately lost an hour of battery life on the web. Get Flashblocker and you get that time back.

I average 4-6 hours with mild use

By: Johnmichael Monteith

Johnmichael Monteith — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:43:48 +0000

Not certain how the tests were done but my “real world” tests on a 13″ MBA showed about 4.5 hours in OS X with four applications running (Safari, Excel, iTunes, Chrome) and a little over 5 hours in Windows 7 on the same machine with the same applications (note, reconfigured for solid state memory). I do not doubt you could limit what you are doing to get more than 7 hours, but I would not plan on seeing 11 hours of battery life unless you are not doing much web traffic and avoiding all CPU intensive tasks.

By: Jenmenke

Jenmenke — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:58:09 +0000

I got only 4 Hrs working on indesign and safari/wordpress. I’m wondering if migration assistant brought flash over from MBP and that’s why. Didn’t realize about flash. I was bummed to see battery draining so quickly. Now I’ll have some things to test. Thanks

By: lvl86

lvl86 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:13:23 +0000

I get about 2 hour battery life playing world of warcraft. Does any1 know if that is right or should i get more battery life?

By: Migration... iMac to MacBook air

Migration... iMac to MacBook air — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:29:31 +0000

[...] so small… including the battery. Note that the 13" MBA on the other hand has very impressive battery life. Cheers, -Michl Reply With Quote [...]

By: Migration... iMac to MacBook air

Migration... iMac to MacBook air — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:03:13 +0000

[...] so small… including the battery. Note that the 13" MBA on the other hand has very impressive battery life. Cheers, -Michl Reply With Quote + Reply to [...]

By: Apple ya no es más caro, todo un descubrimiento | Incognitosis

Apple ya no es más caro, todo un descubrimiento | Incognitosis — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:47:46 +0000

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By: mificlub

mificlub — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:09:43 +0000

i only got like 2 hours using aperture on the highest spec 13in air…

By: Tuan Anh Tran

Tuan Anh Tran — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:06:54 +0000

very impressive indeed.

By: Rizky Syazuli

Rizky Syazuli — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:16:44 +0000

isn’t that just the risk of running more apps? try turning off ur wifi (and every other app ur running for that matter). i’m sure the battery will last a lot longer..