The test actions are as follows:ġ) Open a website () pause 30 seconds.Ģ) Open a second website () pause 30 seconds.ģ) Open a third website () pause 30 seconds.Ĥ) Open and create a new text document in TextEdit pause 20 seconds.ĥ) Open the Mail app and pause for 20 seconds to let any new messages download.Ħ) Close all applications pause 5 seconds. Moderate Workflow: Using a specific Automator script, this test attempted to recreate a moderate workflow. In other words, no matter how lightly you use your Mac, this is the maximum battery life you could ever receive. While this is a completely unrealistic scenario, we sought to determine a “baseline” for battery life. Wi-Fi was also enabled, but no applications accessed it other than background system-level tasks such as checking for software updates. Maximum Endurance: For this test, we wanted to first see just how far we could push things so we tested an idle situation with the screen on but no running applications. Each test was performed twice, and the results were averaged. We examined four scenarios, described below.
The screen backlight was set to 5 bars for all tests and the volume to 50 percent for video tests. Each Mac’s power options were configured to keep the display on at all times, and settings such as the screensaver and automatic backlight dimming were turned off. During each test, all background software and services were disabled except for Wi-Fi and the applications needed during the test.
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