[timemachiner]

I may be the only developer on HN that doesn't have this issue or on the entire internet for that matter, but I have no issues with battery life on my tMBP 15". I do all day development in eclipse and have music playing in the background. I think the battery life issues are overblown based on the few other devs around me that also use the new tMBP but I haven't personally asked them how long theirs last, just see they keep theirs unplugged for long periods of time too.

[nottorp]

It's not the issue's existence that's my cause for concern, it's Apple's reaction to it.

They've always had some process that went runaway and ate most of the CPU for no reason. Just the name of the process changed across hardware and software versions.

The problem is, now they're removing an useful indicator to swipe the current problem (and I'm sure a large amount of people do have it) under the rug. It's this decision that worries me, not that they botched something on this laptop generation.

[timemachiner]

You can still view estimated battery life in Activity Monitor.

[nottorp]

Yeah? Well you need to keep Activity Monitor on all the time to check what process is eating up your CPU for no reason anyway :)

[timemachiner]

Haha, yeah that's true!

[nkozyra]

Or by holding alt/option and clicking on the battery/power icon.

This was changed before the issues referred noted.

[jedikv]

That's like me saying my launch day xbox 360 still works 11 years later, ergo the 'Red-ring-of-death' issue was 'overblown'