That's what I thought...
I had brightness on 3 and only used MovieMagicScreenwriter and I got maybe 7.5 hours on my 13" MBA. That program used about 9-10% per 15-20 pages generated.
And 5 hours on the 11" MBA.
Now granted, I am a trackpad spaz, so if I used the magic mouse perhaps my battery time would have increased an hour or so on both. I noticed trackpad usage for me any way was also a bigger battery drain because I just am not used to trackpads.
If any of the Apple laptop batteries got 8-9 hours just running MMSW, I'd still have an Apple laptop (and figure out a way around my wrist issues).
One thing I love the iPad for is the battery life > if Apple does anything with their future laptop design I really hope they can find a way to push the battery life back up while maintaining the same form factor/lightness/power.
Flash isn't installed on shipping MacBook Airs. Obviously, you would have had to first reduce your battery life by installing Flash and then increase it again by installing Click-to-Flash.
The obvious answer to this is why install Click-to-Flash at all, just don't install Flash.
And of course, you'll have to be precise what you mean by "12 hours". This is not continuous use for sure because even at a brightness of 1 and with every app closed that is simply impossible.
I had brightness on 3 and only used MovieMagicScreenwriter and I got maybe 7.5 hours on my 13" MBA. That program used about 9-10% per 15-20 pages generated.
And 5 hours on the 11" MBA.
Now granted, I am a trackpad spaz, so if I used the magic mouse perhaps my battery time would have increased an hour or so on both. I noticed trackpad usage for me any way was also a bigger battery drain because I just am not used to trackpads.
If any of the Apple laptop batteries got 8-9 hours just running MMSW, I'd still have an Apple laptop (and figure out a way around my wrist issues).
One thing I love the iPad for is the battery life > if Apple does anything with their future laptop design I really hope they can find a way to push the battery life back up while maintaining the same form factor/lightness/power.
