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Macbook Air 1,1 power consumption
I have the original MBA, and I have extremely high power consumption - see the screenshot (screenshot got while TextEdit only was running)
Is is normal for original MBA?
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Macbook Air short Battery Life
I purchased Macbook Air 13 in late 2012. It is advertised as having 7 hour battery life. After a few months of use, with maximum charge it gives me only 2 hours.
Is this normal?
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Macbook started to consume battery more quickly
This seemed to happen after I did several things at once (all of which I have since reversed in trying to track this down):
installed a (Crucial M4) SSD drive (replacing my old SATA 5400 RPM drive),
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Is there a way to get the OSX battery icon to display both percentage and time?
I am working on a 2006 MacBook with Snow Leopard.
The battery level indicator has the option to show Time or Percentage remaining. I would like to show both.
Is there a way to enable this?
or
Can ...
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Which uses more battery when tethering - Wifi or BT on iPhone 4S?
I'm not really bothered which is quicker - I'm guessing this is wifi anyway. I just want to know which would allow me to get the most life out of my iPhone 4S when tethering to it with may MBP. ...
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How to check if internal HDD spindle is off after unmount
I use SSD instead of optical drive in my Macbook MC516LL, so I have bunch of reasons why I wants to keep HDD's spindle off:
Preserve HDD from shock
Reduce energy consuming
Reduce overall system ...
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Should I use the adapter or the battery?
I want to know when my MBP's battery was fully charged it's better to unplug my adapter and use my battery power or still let use adapter power?
I somewhere read that when MBP's battery was fully ...
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Why does GPS on the iPhone use so much power?
I keep reading in articles that GPS on the iPhone, or any cell phone for that matter, uses a lot of power, but I've never heard an explanation of why.
Why is this? The phone doesn't have to transmit ...
