On average it's probably closer to 2 hours. I'm always lucky if I can do 2.5-3 hours.
I think my last MacBook Pro was rated at 4-5 hours of battery life. I never pay attention to the claims, because I never get anywhere near what they specify the machine can do. I never ever ever pay attention to Apple's claims on battery life when it comes to a MacBook. Yes, I do lots of processor intensive work, so the fan is on all the time even in this new one, but it's much much quieter than my last one. My last MacBook Pro seemed to always be running the fan. Not only is it antiglare, but it's also recessed just like the previous aluminum MacBook Pros, which means my 3M privacy screen fits in it nicely again. Right off the bat I could tell I was going to like it better. I lived with it and it wasn't the end of the world, but apparently Apple listened to the cries of thousands of photographers and offered an anti-glare option. The one thing I wasn't crazy about with my last MacBook Pro was the very reflective glossy display.
Sure you can change the resolution, but anything other than the native resolution will be soft unless you use an external display. However, if you have a hard time reading/seeing small things on screen this could be a problem for you. It took about a day to get used to it, now I don't give it a second thought and I do appreciate having more of my documents display without scrolling. Of course the advantage is that you see more on screen and the disadvantage is that everything is smaller. It's now 1680×1050 as opposed to the old one being 1440×900. One of the first things that caught me totally by surprise was that I didn't know that Apple changed the default resolution of the 15.4" display. There wasn't anything wrong with the design (other than I still prefer the older trackpads with a separate button). Otherwise from a look and feel perspective It feels just like my old one. They replaced the ExpressCard slot with an SD card reader and I was already mentally prepared for that. So I was already familiar with this design and Apple hasn't really changed it much. My last MacBook Pro was the 1st generation uni-body enclosure. There's nothing really new with the design. Well it arrived last week and I thought I would take a few minutes to share my first impressions.ĨGB RAM, 15.4" Antiglare LED Display, 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 500GB 7200 RPM drive If you remember last week's post on " When should you buy a New Mac?" You'll remember that I had just placed my order at work for the newly introduced MacBook Pro 15" Core i7. The MacBook Pro i use for work recently got upgraded.
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