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Re: Maverick's Battery Usage

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On 2014-05-23, Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> wrote:
> In article <bu9s6nFkcl5U1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-05-23, Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> wrote:
>> > In article <bu9ggqFht47U1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
>> ><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> > Everything is 0.0 with the exception of Activity Monitor (2.6), Window
>> > Server (4.1), iStat Local Daemon (don't know how to get rid of that
>> > cause I don't use iStat anymore), and of course Thoth.
>> 
>> There's your answer.
>> 
>> The quick and thorough way to remove iStat Menus would be to download
>> the installation package, run it, then choose iStat Menus > Uninstall
>> from the menu bar:
>> 
>> <http://bjango.com/help/istatmenus4/install/>
>
>  I found the uninstaller and did that. Not much else I can do I guess
> because you can't really calibrate the non-removable batteries anymore.
> Think I'll just let it run down to the warning. Let it sit for a while
> (not in sleep), recharge and see what happens.

Here's what Apple has to say about it:

<http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1490>

> Question about Notifications. I've disable everything but Messages but
> I notice that when I get an email, those still come thru in my
> Notification menu. One would think that they are mutually exclusive of
> each other but I guess not, unless I've missed a mail setting
> somewhere.

Take a look in System Preferences > Notifications. You should see an
item in the list for Mail where you can set what sort of notifications
you want to see (or not).

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JR

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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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