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Apple MacBook Pro 13 and 15

Apple tree's new MacBook Pro hasn't had the smoothest debut. It's more expensive than previous Mac systems, and it relies heavily on dongles or third-party add together-ons to offer port compatibility. Only the systems themselves have reviewed well. If you can live with the restrictions Apple puts on the MacBook Pro and don't mind the price, about reviews take suggested these are solid follow-ups, with the Touch Bar offering some interesting capabilities and long-term potential. Now that laptops are aircraft in book, nonetheless, some readers are chiming in nearly massive battery life problems.

Apple'due south support forums and reddit have both been churning with complaints, though at that place seem to be at to the lowest degree two different issues in-play based on what nosotros've seen thus far. The first trouble is a simple reporting issue. As 9To5Mac notes, in some cases, Apple dramatically reduces its estimated battery life if you're using a battery-intensive application, but doesn't right the estimate one time the application is closed. This can issue in an estimated bombardment life that is simply wrong (in 9To5Mac's case, the battery indicator reported just over three hours of life when the actual system run-fourth dimension was over six hours).

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The outcome, however, isn't just related to battery life reporting. Multiple users have reported straining to hitting even six hours of battery life, with some reporting equally little as three hours from full charge to complete rundown. At first, these problems seemed to be limited to 15-inch MacBook Pros, but some 13-inch owners have now reported problems as well. Macworld put these rumors to the exam and establish that they had no such problems in their ain xv-inch hardware, simply that turning automatic graphics switching off and relying solely on the AMD GPU did hit bombardment life substantially.

This could point to a problem with power direction. But it'due south not clear why only certain systems are affected, or if the problem is even limited to only models with AMD GPUs. The fact that some owners with 13-inch systems are reporting issues seems to indicate it isn't, since those configurations don't ship with discrete graphics. Other users have stated that shifting all of their workloads to the integrated GPU (and avoiding the AMD solution altogether) doesn't solve the problem, either.

I MacBook Pro owner confirmed he's getting between one and three hours of battery life. He even ran the system downward at Apple's Genius Bar, where a tech reported that the system was "fine," even though the system died in but three hours. MacRumors reports that Apple tree software engineering chief Craig Federighi sent an email to some other user claiming macOS 12.ii.ii beta should resolve separate issues with graphical corruption that some MacBook Pro owners have reported (an entirely separate problem we oasis't even touched on), merely there's no discussion if the included fixes also address these battery life issues.

2016 seems to take been a yr for battery problems at multiple companies, from Surface Pro three failures (two thus far), to the Milky way Note seven, iPhone 6s, and now Apple's laptops as well. Hopefully these problems volition exist addressed sooner rather than later. Six hours of runtime from a $2,000+ laptop isn't necessarily awful, but half-dozen hours when Apple systems have a reputation for hitting the 10+ hours the visitor typically claims is more than than a little underwhelming.