Macbook 2010 White Battery Drains Fast

• See how apps affect Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature, and fan activity - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203184

Several ideas (to include links in article to other support pages) are covered here.

You may also seek to check into adware or other items that run in background &

don't actively help. Malwarebytes for Mac (free version) can help find/remove junk.

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What are you doing on the laptop when running on battery power? Five hours of battery life isn't bad especially for an older battery.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/manage-your-portable-computers-battery-mh21207/mac

https://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/

Run the Apple Diagnostics or Apple Hardware Test.

Option-click the battery icon on the menubar. If the condition is anything but "Normal" or "Good" it indicates the battery should be replaced. "Replace Soon" means the battery won't power the laptop as long as it originally did when new. "Replace Now" indicates the battery won't run on the battery for very long.

Run EtreCheck and post the report here using the "Additional Text" icon which looks like a piece of paper.

The quality of third party Lithium-ion batteries is extremely poor. Many third party batteries tend to be much smaller than the Apple originals so they don't hold the same amount of charge. The important information on the battery needs to be retrieved using Coconut Battery where the original capacity (macOS doesn't show this info so need the third party app) and the current full charge capacity are needed to see how worn the battery has become. Perhaps improper storage by the vendor/sellr has reduced the capacity of the battery.

70C is not unusual depending on what is running. The more activity of the CPU the faster the battery will drain.

krishay164 wrote:

The battery is a genuine apple battery. The computer specs are 2gb of Ram, 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo and 250gb ssd.

The battery is brand new. Could it be the lack of ram that is causing the battery drain.

If you just purchased a genuine Apple battery in 2019/2020, then that battery has been sitting around for years since Apple hasn't supported the 2010 laptop since about 2016. The information Coconut Battery can retrieve is important to know the original capacity and the current capacity which can give us an idea of how long the battery should last and how worn it may be.

Anything that makes the computer work harder will drain the battery faster. I'm sure the heatsink thermal compound is dried out and could stand to be replaced which can drop CPU temps. Running the diagnostics, EtreCheck, and MalwareBytes will help determine if there is a hardware issue or software issue causing the laptop to run hotter than you believe it should. It doesn't take much to cause CPU temps to rise to 70C and is definitely within the norm for a lot of work loads.

Glad that you got to the bottom of this issue. My path, first upgrade (RAM)

hardware far I can to Mac, before adding a new larger faster storage drive.

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