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Re: Maverick's Battery Usage

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Maverick's Battery Usage
Date 2014-05-23 17:57 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <bu9ggqFht47U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <230520141049236633%otto@bogus.address.com>

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On 2014-05-23, Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> wrote:
> New question, new post. Battery usage seems to be a lot poorer after
> updating to Maverick's. The only difference now is that I'm using
> Message Notifications for iMessage, FaceTime, an email. I know that
> keeping those open and running in the background will impact battery
> usage somewhat but it does seem to more than what I would expect. Or is
> it? Would calibrating my battery for the new OS improve that somewhat?

Open /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor, and have a look at the
Energy tab. The "Energy Impact" column shows which applications are
using the most power.

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Maverick's Battery Usage Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2014-05-23 10:49 -0700
  Re: Maverick's Battery Usage Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-05-23 17:57 +0000
    Re: Maverick's Battery Usage Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2014-05-23 13:32 -0700
      Re: Maverick's Battery Usage Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-05-23 21:17 +0000
        Re: Maverick's Battery Usage Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2014-05-23 15:04 -0700
          Re: Maverick's Battery Usage Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-05-23 23:15 +0000
            Re: Maverick's Battery Usage Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2014-05-23 20:39 -0700

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