Considering one of the main draws of the Macbook Air (for me) is battery life, this was a huge problem.<\/p>\n
It took many hours (largely due to my never having done any of this on a Mac before), but yesterday I decided to back up my apps via time machine, format the drive, reinstall Mountain Lion, and restore apps via the backup. (Huge thanks to +<\/span>Mark Brueschke<\/a><\/span> for SMS tech support throughout the process.)<\/p>\n Despite the time it took, and some browser syncing frustration that was really an unrelated issue, the whole thing really went swimmingly – remarkably painless, all things considered.<\/p>\n And, best of all, I got up this morning to a machine will the same battery levels (63%) as when I closed the lid at noon yesterday. And I've been working on it, on battery power, for the last three hours, and I still have an estimated five hours of power left. I love this machine.<\/p>\n I'm a little frustrated by the issue with Mavericks, especially considering the OS upgrade was supposed to dramatically increase<\/b> battery life, but I can live without the Mavericks features for awhile (and the next time I upgrade, I'll have a full Time Machine backup to jump back to, rather than the half-assed thing I had to do this time around. In this situation, I think +<\/span>Dave Hill<\/a><\/span> and +<\/span>Kate Testerman<\/a><\/span> 's practice of waiting for #.#.1 versions of system upgrades is the way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Considering one of the main draws of the Macbook Air (for me) is battery life, this was a huge problem. It took many hours (largely due to my never having done any of this on a Mac before), but yesterday I decided to back up my apps via time machine, format the drive, reinstall Mountain … <\/p>\n