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>This newer 2013 MacBook Air is holding up much better than the 2012 model, and I'm consistently still getting 6-8 hours of life out of the battery at least.

It may be just my usage patterns but I never seem to get more than 4 hours on the 2013 Air. I mostly have a fair number of Chrome tabs along with a terminal window open and that seems to be enough to drain the batter rather quickly.




Chrome for MacOS seems to be quite badly behaved; you should see better results with Safari.


Have you tried Safari? I hear it is more energy efficient: http://thetypist.com/482/chromefree/

Allowing Flash to autoplay is wasteful as well.


Chrome + many tabs is the biggest power draw on my 2013 Air, followed by my Virtualbox vms.




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