Yesss!!! I noticed my battery life was greatly reduced. Happy to read about a update to fix the problem. Well done Apple!
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OS X 10.8.2 Restores Notebook Battery Life to OS X Lion Levels
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Great! Now fix "Notes"!
This sounds just great! Now, if they can also put a "Find" function into the "Notes" app, I'll be truly happy with Mountain Lion! Ok, let me clarify that, yes, there is a "Search" box, but it only shows you the notes which contain the string. There's no way to search inside of a particular note. I keep having to Copy/Paste it into a Textedit window just to find what I want!
This sounds just great! Now, if they can also put a "Find" function into the "Notes" app, I'll be truly happy with Mountain Lion! Ok, let me clarify that, yes, there is a "Search" box, but it only shows you the notes which contain the string. There's no way to search inside of a particular note. I keep having to Copy/Paste it into a Textedit window just to find what I want!
The bug we've been having is pretty common. I was just pointing out, the idea that Windows 8 is bug free is pretty... wrong. And Enterprises usually don't go for the open betas, which is usually where all of the huge problems come into play.
I haven't had any issues with Mountain Lion... even my battery performs fine. I think this is, issue wise, the best release of Mac OS X I've seen in a long time.
I would like Apple to address the SMC as well, as most if the fan control apps don' t work with Ivy bridge MBP.
Good p0rn sites support HTML5 video elements (H.264 hardware accelerated decoding on OS X).i have been using 10.8.2 for about a week now and i can confirm that my battery life is better. i just wish all the flash p0rn sites didnt kill my battery.
Am I reading this right that a SSD has a shorter battery life then a HDD? I would of thought something with moving parts used more power then something that has no moving parts.
This is exactly what I was thinking. I've been told that SSDs generate less heat and use less electricity, and it makes sense because they don't have motors.
Yeah, Windows newbie dont need to learn how to use Spotlight, don't need to understand how to edit photo in Preview, coz Windows Update is kissing their asses everyday.
I wonder why most of my friends turned their laptop into paper weight after college if many people argues their PC laptops are better than a Mac? You should go and kick their asses than.
I, too, believe a lot of emphasis is being placed in two key areas:
1) hardware
2) applications
More effort could be put into core operating system enhancements. The Finder is vastly improved in terms of performance over early versions of OS X, but I feel it's still overly neglected. Apple should be refining Finder weekly, but instead they operate on a yearly basis. :/
Hopefully they also fix the problem where the menu bar freezes. Hovering my pointer above the frozen menu bar gives me the spinning wheel. The clock stops and can be anywhere from hours to days behind until I reboot. Right now it's stuck at 5.49 PM when it's really 7.18 PM.
You use SSD to put more stress on the CPU, this is how it drives up fans and power consumption of the CPU, therefore battery life would not bump too much.
My old 13" is running on the original HDD, and yesterday I used it straight for 7.5 hrs with 20% battery left.
Clicking the battery is still one more step than you had to do in 10.6.8, so it is kind of a cheap trick on Apples part to "hide" the time remaining, at least from plain view.
Has nothing to do with it.
SSDs have been sucking up more power than efficient HDDs have been even from as far back as 2008 as evidenced by this Tomshardware article and this followup.
Don't know who started the battery life claims but obviously they weren't comparing using modern HDD technologies.
I could definitely say that the OS controls Processor Speed and performance depending on the amount of battery left.
While playing Starcraft, the game suddenly became very laggy, to the point of becoming almost unplayable. I had to run and get the charger, and as soon as I plugged it in, performance went back to normal.
While playing Starcraft, the game suddenly became very laggy, to the point of becoming almost unplayable. I had to run and get the charger, and as soon as I plugged it in, performance went back to normal.
Using an SSD takes more CPU time? I don't see why it would do that. As for your 13", please stop making fun of my MacBook that only lasts 2 hours maximum (everything disabled and minimum usage)
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This is true. My MacBook is very slow when the battery gets low.
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Where are your test results?
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Thank you for the explanation.
sweet I'm already getting good battery life on my macbook air with 10.8.1. Maybe 5 hours before it reaches 20%. I don't go below 20% to avoid damaging the battery. I hope that the update can bring it to 6 hours.
Wow!! This makes so much sense now... I upgraded to mountain lion AND parallels 8 at the same time. I BLAMED parallels 8 and it has been driving me crazy. Darn you Apple. lol Fix it!! haha
Finally and long over due. My MacBook Air just isn't where it used to be in terms of battery life, and I'm hoping that it will bring it back!