should i set the put hard disk to sleep when possible then?
is this what you do?
is your battery set to better battery life?
On 24 Oct 2008, at 19:28, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Well the battery should definitely last a lot longer than that. I
wonder, do you have any background tasks running that are frequently
reading the hard drive? Or is the "put hard disks to sleep" option
disabled in energy saver? The hd will drain power pretty quick if
it's constantly being accessed or at full power all the time.
On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:20, Will Lomas wrote:
i only had this mac since june 2nd that rediculous though lol
On 24 Oct 2008, at 19:13, Dave Wright wrote:
Looks like time for a batty replacement me boy...
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Subject: Re: battery life
even when screen curtain is off i only get 2 hours reported on
the status bar
On 24 Oct 2008, at 16:17, David Poehlman wrote:
screen curtain interrupts the signal to the display.
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Subject: Re: battery life
Hmm that seems way too low actually, I get around 5 hours on my
2.4ghz
macbook with wireless off and that's without touching the display
brightness or doing any other tweaks. If I turn that down I can
get a
little more out of it, and turning bluetooth off will give me
another
hour and a half or so, and reducing the processor speed a bit will
further increase it.
Depending on what screen curtain is actually doing to blank the
display it could be reducing your battery life rather than
increasing
it. If it say forces the screen to be constantly black, rather
than
just turning it off, this would drain the battery faster due to
the
fact that the video card is still drawing pictures but Voiceover
ishaving to black them out before they reach the display. In
effect
this doubles the number of operations the graphics card must
perform.
I don't know exactly how screen curtain accomplishes its task--
maybe
it doesn't do this--but it's something to test. Don't turn on the
curtain and see if your battery life is affected. I do suspect,
however, that it works like this due to the fact that it works
on all
monitor combinations and there are instances, such as the Mac
Mini or
MacPro, where the system doesn't have control over the
monitor's power.
On Oct 24, 2008, at 07:31, Will Lomas wrote:
hi is around 2 hours thirty mins about right for a macbook
battery
life with wireless active and screen curtain turned down?
