Hello,
My MBP has an OCZ Vertex4 SSD in the main drive bay, and the stock HDD is in the optibay. Hoping for some ideas from the community on improving the battery life; just having a few tabs open in Chrome is enough to bleed out a full charge in around 4hrs, let alone doing anything more intensive.
As I haven't tended to use my laptop for more than brief periods unplugged, resolving this hasn't been a high priority for me until now. But I'm going to be going back to school in January and I will really need my machine to be up to the challenge of running unplugged for hours at a time!
I've tried a few interventions, but it's still nowhere near viable stamina:
Some other particulars that may or may not be relevant:
Are there any tips or tricks I might be missing? I have seen suggestions about removing shortcuts from Finder windows, or unmounting disks altogether is that really necessary? I've also seen recommendations to try fseventer for a more noob-friendly view of disk access; sounds perfect for me, but I'm running Yosemite and haven't been able to turf up any Yosemite-compatible GUI disk monitoring apps. Any suggestions?
Many, many thanks!
My MBP has an OCZ Vertex4 SSD in the main drive bay, and the stock HDD is in the optibay. Hoping for some ideas from the community on improving the battery life; just having a few tabs open in Chrome is enough to bleed out a full charge in around 4hrs, let alone doing anything more intensive.
As I haven't tended to use my laptop for more than brief periods unplugged, resolving this hasn't been a high priority for me until now. But I'm going to be going back to school in January and I will really need my machine to be up to the challenge of running unplugged for hours at a time!
I've tried a few interventions, but it's still nowhere near viable stamina:
- Used pmset to spin down the HDD after 1 minute
- Turned off local Time Machine backups
- Turned off Spotlight indexing for the HDD
- HDD is used exclusively for media: Photos, music, videos.
- When I use fs_usage, I can see that things are hitting the HDD, but I don't know enough about the world of the CLI/OS to know what to do about it :-(
Some other particulars that may or may not be relevant:
- FWIW my SSD has a Bootcamp partition, and my HDD has a MS-DOS formatted partition. Because games. ;-P
- I use Alfred, but I don't have the HDD in the search scope
- Taking a peek at Activity Monitor shows that I am haemorrhaging battery even on the integrated graphics card
Are there any tips or tricks I might be missing? I have seen suggestions about removing shortcuts from Finder windows, or unmounting disks altogether is that really necessary? I've also seen recommendations to try fseventer for a more noob-friendly view of disk access; sounds perfect for me, but I'm running Yosemite and haven't been able to turf up any Yosemite-compatible GUI disk monitoring apps. Any suggestions?
Many, many thanks!