The Nightmare of Replacing a Battery on a Mac Laptop

Re:The Nightmare of Replacing a Battery on a Mac Laptop by franze on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @12:33PM (#10465464)

89% charged, 4h calculated time http://replycam.com/i/batterylifetime_1BE12F3F.png (but in reality, it will be shorter)

yeah, chrome is in there.

but switch to safari? my thoughts a) i'm a developer, i rather like new APIs, latest HTML 5 features b) my whole company infrastructure relies on google services (and they work best in chrome, no surprise there) c) my old macbook air (2013, maverick, killed one month ago by my son with self made kombucha) had about 7h battery-life

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Re:The Nightmare of Replacing a Battery on a Mac Laptop by MBCook on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @12:54PM (#10465659)

I'm not arguing you should switch to Safari (which I like) or arguing feature merits (I don't care much myself). But if you have a Mac you have Safari, so it's an easy test to run. And you will be AMAZED at the difference in battery life. It's pathetic.

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Re:The Nightmare of Replacing a Battery on a Mac Laptop by robterrell on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @01:56PM (#10466118)

Agreed. I stopped using Chrome at home. It was weird moving to Safari but I get much longer battery life now.

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