Times and processes and battery capacity for a 15" MacBook Pro and 15" Retina MacBook Pro

Battery capcity
2009-2012 non-retina 15" MacBook Pros have a starting battery capacity of 6900. I believe that a 15" Retina 2012-2014 has a capacity of 8727 (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1399560), which is a 26% increase for a retina MacBook Pro, though you loose the Ethernet connection, DVD-RW drive, a line in port, and Firewire 800, but gain an additional Thunderbolt port and battery caacity. I'd assume the processor uses a little less draw being a smaller architecture and that the screen uses a little more, so I would guess that the retina could get better battery life, but I am not sure.

Times
I have an external hard drive with an OSX 10.8 installer, and two bootable carbon copy cloner clones.

On a late 2008 Unibody15" MacBook Pro 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo

Time it takes to boot to the 10.8 installer on the external hard drive (holding option), wiping the drive in disk utility, and then running the 10.8 installer- 6:30

(Then I unplug the hard drive as it restarts)
It says it will take 21 minutes
Total time (27 minutes)


Time to format a 320GB drive with 1 pass of encryption zero out data (estimated 1:13:00)
Estimated time to copy 104 GB in Restore Time Machine (1HR) though when running time machine to back up data, it claimed an hour estimate initially but was closer to 1:40.

-There are a few ways of using Time Machine to get your data on a new computer.
One is Migration Assistant which you can use if you already have an computer set up and want to add to it. The imported data, appications, etc, will then be will create a second user account on that computer with all the settings from the other computer and with their username.

During a fresh install of OSX, you have the option to Restore from a Time Machine, or Reinstall OSX. I know Reinstall OSX will also create the restore partition for Mountain Lion. It takes 20 minutes to set up, and then you get to choose a username and everything. I am testing now to see if the Restore will also include a restore partion.

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Why two bootable carbon copy clones?
If I want to put one of the clones onto a new hard drive,(despite it taking an extra 40 seconds to boot when doing it this way if the OS was set up on a different computer than it will be used in)
1. can boot into the other clone on the hard drive,
2. Open disk utility to format, name, partition etc the new hard drive in the connected computer
3. open the carbon copy cloner app, select the carbon copy clone you aren't booting from on the external hard drive as the source and the newly formatted hard drive in the actual computer as the destination.
4. It will clone the hard drive and usually not ask you for new serials (CleanApp may have asked for a new serial but CS5 didn't)
5. You will now have the system pretty much exactly the way it was when it was cloned. The same programs autostart
6. If you copied it to a different MacBook Pro than the clone was from, you may get annoyed by the long boot time (I have seen it take as long as 1:30 on an i5 17" macBook pro from 2010). Normal bootup should be 40 seconds or less (perhaps 20 seconds if you have an SSD though I have seen less on YouTube)