{"id":5790,"date":"2012-08-23T20:28:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5790"},"modified":"2012-08-24T12:58:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T17:58:25","slug":"mountain-lion-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/23\/mountain-lion-battery-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Lion Battery Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/13217\">Agen G. N. Schmitz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/13217\"><p>Shortly after Mountain Lion was released, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro owners reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/4135250?start=0&amp;tstart=0\">Apple&rsquo;s support forums<\/a> that running 10.8 caused significant battery drainage issues, with some complaining that battery life was reduced to almost half the normal amount. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2012\/08\/tests-show-mountain-lion-may-indeed-degrade-battery-life\/\">Ars Technica<\/a> then ran what they called &ldquo;real world&rdquo; tests on its MacBook Pro with Retina Display (which, according to Apple, should have an 8-hour battery life on a full charge), and their testing results never yielded more than 5 hours and a few minutes of run time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/macbook_pro_mountain_lion_battery_life_10.7_vs_10.8_vs_10.8.1\/\">Jim Tanous<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/macbook_pro_mountain_lion_battery_life_10.7_vs_10.8_vs_10.8.1\/\"><p>With great anticipation, we installed the final build of 10.8.1 this morning and ran our benchmark again, only to be disappointed by the results. Battery life did improve by about 17 minutes over the prerelease build, but we are still over an hour short on battery life compared to 10.7.4&rsquo;s numbers, a difference of about 20 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agen G. N. Schmitz: Shortly after Mountain Lion was released, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro owners reported on Apple&rsquo;s support forums that running 10.8 caused significant battery drainage issues, with some complaining that battery life was reduced to almost half the normal amount. Ars Technica then ran what they called &ldquo;real world&rdquo; tests on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,30,17],"class_list":["post-5790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-batterylife","tag-mac","tag-mountainlion"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5801,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}