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Time left indicator for battery?

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Panini

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Sorry if this has been asked already, but I couldn't find anything on the first two pages.

How do I make it so that the battery indicator shows time instead of % remaining?

It's useful to know if I can have 10 minutes of gaming or 60 minutes of browsing and it provides a nice non third-party way of checking which gpu is in use.
 
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GGJstudios

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Panini said:
Sorry if this has been asked already, but I couldn't find anything on the first two pages.

How do I make it so that the battery indicator shows time instead of % remaining?

It's useful to know if I can have 10 minutes of gaming or 60 minutes of browsing and it provides a nice non third-party way of checking which gpu is in use.
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This is already being discussed in several threads:
From the CHECKING STATUS AND HEALTH section of the following link:
On the MBPR and on ML, the Menu Bar battery indicator no longer offers "Time Remaining" as an option on the Menu Bar. It still appears in the dropdown menu.
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From the BATTERY LIFE FROM A CHARGE section of the following link:
  • Your "time remaining" indication is an ever-changing estimate, based on the current workload of your system. It will fluctuate up and down from minute to minute as your power demands change. It is not perfectly accurate, but only an estimate.
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This should answer most, if not all, of your battery/charging questions:
 
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