Re: VMWare Fusion causes very poor battery life on Retina Macbook Pro

2015-09-21 Thread Mike Arrigo
I've heard of this happening even when using boot camp. This is one reason among others why I left the windows world and do everything using the mac O.S. Original message: Hi everyone, since migrating from a Macbook Air to a retina Macbook Pro, battery life when using Fusion has been very

Re: VMWare Fusion causes very poor battery life on Retina Macbook Pro

2015-09-20 Thread Grant
Depending on which Macbook Pro you’ve bought and which Macbook Air it’s replacing, the designed battery life may be less right off the bat. According to VMWare’s documentation, VMWare Fusion Pro 8 does indeed allow power users to specify whether integrated or discrete graphics are used. I’m

Re: VMWare Fusion causes very poor battery life on Retina Macbook Pro

2015-09-20 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Thanks Grant, I'm back up to about 7 to 8 hours of battery life now after killing a badly behaved Windows process. But I may well still go with Pro. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org > On 21/09/2015, at 11:12 AM, Grant

VMWare Fusion causes very poor battery life on Retina Macbook Pro

2015-09-19 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi everyone, since migrating from a Macbook Air to a retina Macbook Pro, battery life when using Fusion has been very disappointing. Obviously I'd expect to take a bit of a hit, since I'm running two operating systems at once, but in some cases I am only getting about three hours. It was far