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power management

  1. B S Magnet

    Unsolved PowerPC mysteries: The “well, that’s not swell” edition

    This is a terrible question. I’m neither an electrical engineer nor a chemist, which makes this all the more clumsy of me for asking it. Every swelling lithium battery I’ve experienced over the years has come from Intel Macs and other devices (such as phones and other makers’ laptops). The odd...
  2. maverick28

    Resolved "Unable to create a power assertion" - FaceTime calls failing to connect from Mac

    The topic is based on an accidental discovery of mine regarding the seemingly persistent inability of the desktop counterpart of FaceTime to pass the connectivity wall of the mobile one. When the call is initiated Console, among others, contains the entry Unable to create the power assertion...
  3. T

    iPhone 7 Battery Draining

    I have an iPhone 7 that is 1.5 years old and its battery is still fine at around 86% according to the Battery Health in the settings app. I basically used it around 5 hours like normal over the last few days. However, after charging it yesterday, I noticed that my iPhone gets hot and battery...
  4. P

    AMD GPU drawing power while using Intel GPU

    Dear all, I am one of the many that every time I need to buy a new Mac notebook fall in the loop of 13 vs 15 debate. This time I went for the 15. I really love the added screen real estate and don't mind the extra bulk. The thing that always made me get away from it was the kick in of the AMD...