Miserable Battery Life on 2016 MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro 460

Re:Miserable Battery Life on 2016 MacBook Pro with Radeon Pr... by iwritestuff on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @12:16PM (#13168466)

At this point it seems "My MBP 15" has sucky battery life" or "The new MBP sucks!" is a karma gold mine -- I actually own a tbMBP 15" and haven't had any battery nor functionality issues with it. It's an all day programming device for me and suits that purpose very well.

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Re:Miserable Battery Life on 2016 MacBook Pro with Radeon Pr... by alfalfasprout on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @05:58PM (#13172061)

I'm just using vim and spotify and get like 4 hours of battery life. I really do think some MBP's have faulty batteries and it's not a software issue. My 13" 2014 MBP gives me 7+ hours under the same workload.

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Re:Miserable Battery Life on 2016 MacBook Pro with Radeon Pr... by iwritestuff on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:52PM (#13172493)

Do an exchange. I program using eclipse and get all day battery life.

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Re:Miserable Battery Life on 2016 MacBook Pro with Radeon Pr... by alfalfasprout on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:17PM (#13186748)

Sure, but I'm not a masochist :P

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Re:Miserable Battery Life on 2016 MacBook Pro with Radeon Pr... by izacus on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:02PM (#13169637)

Whole day? How many hours of running battery do you consider whole day?

My 15 dies somewhere between 3 and 4 hours (Java/C++ dev) and the lack of battery capacity is very noticeable (previous 15 with nVidia ran for about 5 hours)

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Re:Miserable Battery Life on 2016 MacBook Pro with Radeon Pr... by iwritestuff on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:52PM (#13172498)

I program in eclipse and get all day battery life.

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