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macOS Sierra 10.12.2 Removes 'Time Remaining' Battery Life Indicator
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Well, then just continue not using it. What you are advocating is taking away something that does no harm to you if present but making harm to others if taken away. Ever heard about egocentrism?
People were misled by it's usefulness. Apple realized that it was inaccurate and got rid of it. It was a dummy meter.
The correct answer is not to eliminate it, But to fix it, and to educate.
This honestly feels like Apple saying "There are people too stupid to understand, so instead of helping them, we're just going to take it away from people who use it"
And it wasn't Wildly innacurate, until suddenly the new 2016 macbook pro. Because it's been extremely helpful AND accurate for me on my MacBook Air
you can defend this move all you want. But it still comes down to "I dont use it so i don't care if anybody else can use it". And thats a very egocentrist view.
When it says up to 10 hrs...you should be able to reach to 10 hrs.
Misread your initial comment then, could have sworn you said nothing was lost (i.e. features).
Yes, I generalized my comment quite a bit and it seems hundreds of people feel the same way.
Having an opinion does not make you a troll. Constantly belittling people for their comments makes YOU an assho_e AND a troll. The very definition of a troll actually...
Try to sound a bit more intelligent and argue people's ideas, not the people themselves. Ending a comment with some idiotic version of "you are stupid and i am smart", doesn't get your point across like you think it does. You reread it, and think you did a good job, everyone else reads it, ignores you and moves on.
What people need to keep in mind it only was an estimate on how long it has left if you continue with the same power consumption, if you stop doing heavy work and start just looking at your emails then power consumption goes down and it recaculates based on what your doing at the time, seems Apple thinks we didn't understand this.
They are correct in removing it as it is no longer useful, what they should of done replace it with a power meter showing how many mA or Wh we are using at any given time
They are correct in removing it as it is no longer useful, what they should of done replace it with a power meter showing how many mA or Wh we are using at any given time
Courage.
Business Insider has an article on this new feature of Apple's. As well simple steps in using the Activity Monitor to determine remaining battery life:
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macos-sierra-update-how-to-check-battery-life-remaining-2016-12
Business Insider has an article on this new feature of Apple's. As well simple steps in using the Activity Monitor to determine remaining battery life:
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macos-sierra-update-how-to-check-battery-life-remaining-2016-12
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You're going around in circles and missing the point entirely.
No one in real world, aka outside the macrumors-apple-troll-echo-chamber, takes seriously people who say things like, "Apple has lost their way."
Maybe it was a dummy meter for those who didn't understand what it is used for... for the rest of us, it was a helpful tool.
This seems a problem Apple will not be able to extricate itself from easily, as baked right into the hardware of the 2016 MBP.
In their wisdom and mantra of ever thinner they physically downsized the battery, significantly. Compromises come with that, now becoming apparent in real world experience. But they could advertise a decent battery life as the system optimized to meet such standards under certain ideal conditions.
Problem is average usage is more eclectic. The larger batteries—formally used—could handle these excess demands without much trouble; under heavy load they would naturally drain more rapidly, but largely as one might expect.
Now Apple has it all on a fine knife edge. Under relatively light usage all goes as planned and it looks brilliant. But by design there are scant reserves to draw upon, and in practice many customers will experience less battery time. It is just physics, all optimization and marketing aside.
The 2016 MBP: quite thin in many respects.
In their wisdom and mantra of ever thinner they physically downsized the battery, significantly. Compromises come with that, now becoming apparent in real world experience. But they could advertise a decent battery life as the system optimized to meet such standards under certain ideal conditions.
Problem is average usage is more eclectic. The larger batteries—formally used—could handle these excess demands without much trouble; under heavy load they would naturally drain more rapidly, but largely as one might expect.
Now Apple has it all on a fine knife edge. Under relatively light usage all goes as planned and it looks brilliant. But by design there are scant reserves to draw upon, and in practice many customers will experience less battery time. It is just physics, all optimization and marketing aside.
The 2016 MBP: quite thin in many respects.
Not really. Junk pc vendors give you better specs for less money.
Apple has become something more unpleasant than them.
Expect the year 2017 to be a new "era" for Apple.
The Company will use Hydrogen instead of batteries of Li/Ion, Li/Pol etc.
Some explosions are expected, but will be minor...
A new "patch" will bring you back from the dead...
Apple starts rotting, it's expiration date is unknown but definite since Steve's departure to next level.
Sad.
The Company will use Hydrogen instead of batteries of Li/Ion, Li/Pol etc.
Some explosions are expected, but will be minor...
A new "patch" will bring you back from the dead...
Apple starts rotting, it's expiration date is unknown but definite since Steve's departure to next level.
Sad.
Maybe Tesla will get on board and remove the range gauge now that Apple has "shown us the light".
Actually, Tesla did something similar recently with the safety sensors on their Model X falcon wing doors. They couldn't get it to work properly so they disabled it altogether. So, maybe Apple got the idea from Tesla.
This rule applies to Apple only? Or what about HP or IBM? Or Microsoft under Balmer.
Don't You just hate it when people disagree...
I mean...c'mon it is so damn obvious...this is not the company I once loved for their awesome MacBooks, iMacs, OSX and iOS (until iOS 6)...
what has happened to the guys over at cupertino..
what has happened to the guys over at cupertino..
Eventually Macs will reach a point where they have no ports, no listed specs, switch on when you open them, log you in by touch and instantly take you to a single screen that only displays Apple.com where everything you need to see, know and do is dictated by Apple.
And that's the Pro model.
Apple have been adding bricks to their walled-garden for years and users have been happily watching the sunlight vanish as it gets bigger and bigger under the guise of "simplicity".
Too late now guys.
And that's the Pro model.
Apple have been adding bricks to their walled-garden for years and users have been happily watching the sunlight vanish as it gets bigger and bigger under the guise of "simplicity".
Too late now guys.
It seemed pretty accurate when I was just reading PDFs, writing and doing some research in the web for hours. It's only inaccurate when you're launching/switching too many apps.
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That 1984 ad wasn't what we expected to be.