heh is there a way to disable spotlight *entirely*? I hope there is, because I never liked that feature.
On 7/24/11, Shen <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, before any of you are a bit trigger happy with the reply button, let me > preface this message by saying that I understand battery life is not > something that is easy to calculate. Each minute your MacBook can be doing > different things and the power draw from the battery is not consistent. > > Having said that, I am somewhat convinced the battery life for my MacBook > using Lion is now somewhat less than when I had Snow Leopard. I cannot prove > it of course with easily reproduced steps. But at the moment, as I am > writing this email, my battery status says 20-percent, an hour and 18 > minutes remaining. > If we calculate this up to 100-percent, we know this battery will last 390 > minutes. > I of course don't know what the battery life would calculate to be if > everything is the same, and I am writing this email under SL instead of > Lion. > But what I do know is that under SL, my battery can give me 10 plus hours of > nonstop usage. > This is doing anything but running Safari. I have mid-2010 MacBook Pro. > Again, I am not saying the battery life is definitely less, but it certainly > feels that way. Especially when my laptop seems to run a little more warm > than it has been in the past. > > I am not seeking any answers. I just want to bring this to your attention so > you can be aware of your MacBook's battery life under Lion. > I imagine this has a lot to do with what some people are saying about the > Spotlight. Lion probably has a new way of indexing the files in your system > and is caching it more actively than SL. I am not in panic mode yet. I am > quite sure Apple will come out with an update to improve the battery life. > For the meantime, I cannot expect the 10-hours of battery life I had before > running SL. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
