So battery life has most definitely been improved with 10.8.2. Although it wasn't an immediate change. I had to do a PRAM and SMC reset on my Macbook pro and after that, voila, better battery times. Prior to that, when my battery read 83% it said I only had 1:17 minutes of battery life. After I did the reset and let the battery charge up a little, at 89% it said it had over 4 hours of battery life. Gonna keep an eye on it. Hopefully the issue doesn't return.

 

 

I think it helped also. I have a Early 2011 MBP. From 100% this morning, loading my 2500 songs, 80+ apps and photos to my iPhone it went down to about ~85%.

 

i dunno if we have just a general MBP section, but i got a question.

I have an external monitor hooked up, and my wallpapers rotate through a series of photos in a certain folder. Can I not have both my laptop and monitor be synced, in that they show the same photo and go through the same random order??

 

Great, so now I'm noticing my late 2007 MBP loses about 5% charge just sitting around doing nothing when it's completely turned off. It's like something is eating at a rapid pace even when off.

And when plugged into a power source, it gets much warmer than it used to pre mountain lion.

 

maybe it loses 5% charge on bootup??

 

never thought that bootup would take that much power, but after doing some research last night, it appears that this isn't a random incident as a few other MBP owners have come across this problem as well. Don't know if it is in fact related to Mountain Lion, but that is the only variable that has changed other than installing a brand new battery on the machine less than two weeks ago. I just never noticed it before. It could be a hardware issue, may have to take it into the Genius Bar to have it looked at.

 

I found another limitation with the external monitor, hope apple addresses this one day. But for me when i have PDF's open, I like going into full screen mode. It's just much nicer to read. But if I go into full screen mode, it will transfer it to my primary monitor, then put that grey background on the other monitor making it useless.

Hopefully this is something they fix

 

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