My new MBP 13" is getting lesser battery life since I upgraded my HD to a Seagate Momentus 320gig 7200rpm drive.
Is this supposed to happen?
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Is this supposed to happen?
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Upgraded to 320gig 7200rpm-Lesser Battery Life?
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Yes, but not by much. Maybe ten to twenty minutes less.
Have you looked at Activity Monitor which process might tax the CPU. and therefore need more power, therefore have less time left? Don't forget to Show All Processes.
If it's the "mds" process, than it's Spotlight indexing, but that shouldn't take that long.
Have you looked at Activity Monitor which process might tax the CPU. and therefore need more power, therefore have less time left? Don't forget to Show All Processes.
If it's the "mds" process, than it's Spotlight indexing, but that shouldn't take that long.
Thanks guys. I'll look that up. I always thought it won't affect my battery life that much...just wanted to confirm with experts like you 
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Anyway, I only calibrated my battery once and my meter is still fluctuating a bit so I will give it time to settle.
Thanks again.
.Anyway, I only calibrated my battery once and my meter is still fluctuating a bit so I will give it time to settle.
Thanks again.
Yes, but not by much. Maybe ten to twenty minutes less.
Have you looked at Activity Monitor which process might tax the CPU. and therefore need more power, therefore have less time left? Don't forget to Show All Processes.
If it's the "mds" process, than it's Spotlight indexing, but that shouldn't take that long.
Opened Activity Monitor and I found that these two are taxing my CPU right now:
Spindump - 10.7
Windowserver - 8.0
10.7% and 8.0% is not really taxing. From 50% onwards with no good reason, that is taxing. My Finder sometimes uses 160% just for whatever.
Spindump is the process that dumps a not responsive application.
And Windowserver is necessary, as it is the process that draws all the nice GUI over the UNIX code, so we can navigate the computer.
Firefox is taking over a gig of memory? thats a shitton, what version and what do you have going on?
Mine uses around 250-350mb running 3.5b99 and i normally have one window with 7-11 tabs going.
It's the Virtual Memory.
For example, Activity Monitor takes 9.22MB real memory, but 971.35MB of virtual memory.