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macOS Sierra 10.12.2 Removes 'Time Remaining' Battery Life Indicator
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this comment is incredible, i think it speaks volume for the type of pro consumer apple is going for
he did exactly the same thing with the iPhone reception when he massaged the reception bars to make it look like there was good reception.
And promise is met. "up to" 10 hours
(I consistently get 8, btw, same as my 2014 MBP)
Most cars have the ability to re-calculate based on actual usage. So You're saying that Apple cannot master this seemingly simple algorithm?
my question is... if its not a good methodology for battery life remaining ... which it may very well be...
why include it in the first place? and then remove it after battery life issues arise.
didn't their internal testing show this very fundimental and obviouse issue ?
To be fair this isn't the first time Apple has pulled a bs stunt like this and can be found as having started with the God figure Steve Jobs. "You're holding it wrong" rings a bell!
Was going to say iStat will still show it but no lol. iStat is showing 00:00!
Actually...it hasn't. If anyone could actually get to 10 hrs...so be it...but most of the complaints from people couldn't reach to that hr.And promise is met. "up to" 10 hours
It's an overall feeling and I'm not idealizing Steve Jobs but I certainly liked Apple better under his leadership before than I like it now.
i can definitely reach 10 hours with my machine.
Just can't do it actually using it for anything useful to me, and with the brightness past 60%.
Ha! That is awesome. It seems as if Apple wants users to look at the activity monitor when they check battery life.
Again, you don't get to make comments like this without being called out. They haven't lost anything, and no amount of passive aggressive trolling like this makes it so.
God, there's an awful lot of belly aching going on in this comment stream. Do people have nothing better to do than vent about their first world problems? I honestly can't remember the last time I took that time meter seriously; not just on an OS X device, but on any device by any manufacturer. They're always very subjective measures of how much time you actually have. I always go by the percentage, instead. To those complaining, you know the time indicator has always been a lie -- a comfort blanket, if you will. Apple and other companies keep it there, because customer expectations demand it. But as we know, customer expectations are often widely off the mark in terms of what is actually useful. Good riddance!
Just when I think they've turned the corner, they pull something like this. This isn't Steve Jobs Apple people.
Well, it's not that simple.
While cars are one of the closest analogies, like all analogies, it's not perfect. I think the variables are different, and for the most part observable and understandable on vehicles. If a range says I have 200 miles left on a tank of gas, but I sit in bad traffic for an hour with the AC blasting, I'm going to get a hit on my gas rating but I'm going to know I got stuck in bad accident on the freeway.
If you've ever had a car that has this range, or even gives your current MPG, you know you can play games with the readings. Whoo! I'm going downhill, I'm getting infinity MPH!" Or, I Just slammed on the gas and I'm getting 10MPG."
Now, there is something with Sierra on battery life. Read through my post history and you'll see me complaining about it. But even on El Cap, I've never truly trusted the "time remaining" gauge. In both directions. I've had it last less than the time showed, more than the time shown, and I've had it charge in well under the estimated time. Even on El Cap, I spent more time analyzing the time remaining than I should, when I don't really care it's not on my iPad.
There are more apps and processes running on my laptop than on my car. I know, I know, cars are all computers but I can't download an app onto my car's fuel injection system, and it doesn't get updates (unless I bring it in for service).
The battery life gauge is like the MPG reading when you're coasting downhill or slam on the gas. For giggles, on El Cap I pulled the plug on my Air while I'm typing this (it's idle. I'm typing on this on another computer). In the 3 minutes I've been working on this, I've gone from 7:31 remaining to 7:48. And that's idle with Safari running in the background. Refocusing back to Safari brought me to 7:38 remaining. I just opened up Word and went to 7:28. Kicking off an Office 2016 update I'm now showing 6:38 remaining.
The only measurement that's mattered is "I did these typical tasks and my battery lasted x hours." I've always seen how long it drained down to 75% (assuming I'm not playing a graphics game) and based my battery life on that.