Battery Life and Boot time

[reclusive46]

I was curious. How is battery life on OS Lion and how much longer is the boot time?

 

[MasterHowl]

I'd like to know this too!
I've got a 15 inch late-2008 MacBook Pro and plan on getting Lion the second it comes out... hope it's not too harsh on the battery life!

 

[ajcrow93]

Battery seems 'bout the same to me, although gfxcardstatus isn't working right on my 2011 mbp so its launching the discrete card all the time even though i don't want it to, flattening the battery faster than it should.

Boot time I would expect to be better after public release, as at the moment its definitely slower than 10.6.

 

[lfc]

Battery seems 'bout the same to me, although gfxcardstatus isn't working right on my 2011 mbp so its launching the discrete card all the time even though i don't want it to, flattening the battery faster than it should.

On that, and related to battery life; developers will be able to decide if their app only needs to use the integrated GPU or not, so that will be a good battery boost once developers update their apps to take advantage of this.

 

[Nuckinfuts]

I mentioned this in a similar thread, these values for Lion are not set in stone yet, there is still a lot of optimization to be done which could have a serious impact on these values before release.

All I can say is don't get your hopes up that X will be faster in Lion. Revisit this on release day, I'm sure someone will give you exact results.

 

[Illuminated]

how is the battery gonna be on my iMac 21.5"?