That’s really not impressive for light usage. Someone else, Clementt, chimes in on that thread saying that light browsing gives them a seven hour battery life, and there are certainly some others in the same boat. For older Macs, macOS 10.12 Sierra is like a fresh coat of paintĪs mentioned, similar complaints aren’t just on MacRumors but also Reddit, where user Azr-79 claimed a battery life of three hours and 40 minutes with ‘normal’ usage (namely surfing, watching clips on YouTube and doing software development work).Īnother Reddit poster, Dantz (opens in new tab), claims a six hour life with just light web browsing (in Safari) and brightness on 50%.
Funnily enough, the latest post is from another user (Bxs) who did run a heavy workload – albeit on the freshly released non-Touch Bar model – and found that this drained the battery fully after two and a half hours.