Yeah I'm not getting anywhere near those 7-10 hours people are reporting, from full battery I get 3.5 hours tops. Any suggestions what I can try? macOS reports 89% battery health. I'm using the DW1830 for WiFi, and a Toshiba m.2 SSD which has native support.
It depends on many factors here.
Do you have an old 1 year+ battery you use everyday mostly without adapter?
In my case, I have a brand new 97W OEM calibrated Dell Battery, I get 5 to 7 hours depending on usage.
Like you « it seems » battery is draining fast like 1% down every 3 to 4 minutes, i.g almost 400 minutes = 6 hours, not that bad.
So nothing surprising here for me. It could be better for sure but that’s the more probable scenario you’ll get with this hackintosh. Even KNNSpeed reported the same duration, same for people testing Jardenliu guide.
Also in bios deactivate SD Card, USB powershare, and in Mac OS X deactivate bluetooth when you don’t use it. And check your battery health in Bios.
Last there is a guide on ultrabook forum to callibrate your battery, do it only if the battery hasn’t been used too much so far and most of all don’t overdo it once or twice in your whole battery lifetime.
I booted into bios on battery and let it discharge completely until hard shutdown. Then wait 3 to 5 hours to cool it down, very important step here, not doing this could worsen things. Reboot into bios connecting the adapter until full charge. Doing this I uncreased my full battery capacity from 85w to 94w, almost 10%.
So far ading ADP1 patch has improved battery behaviour, no more sudden discharge or 5 % gain when I connect the adapter.
Hope that helps.