Volume affects the battery life? Interesting..I turn it off while in class anyways as well as BT and wireless. Battery life claims around 5.5 hrs which I think is pretty accurate. Oh and I have my brightness set to one bar.
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1st gen MacBook 2.75 hours of battery use...poor
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Volume affects the battery life? Interesting..I turn it off while in class anyways as well as BT and wireless. Battery life claims around 5.5 hrs which I think is pretty accurate. Oh and I have my brightness set to one bar.
1. I was courteous to tell you my line of work, which I assume everyone knows that it is either in basic science or engineering (FYI, genetics). However, I can see the confusion. Again I say, I use the MacBook for personnal tasks (budget, iTunes, shopping etc.), which doesn't even include games.
2. You don't have to list all the components in my MacBook, hence the smile face in my previous comment. However, it is good to know that you can name all the components and there makers in your MacBook Pro. Humanity is thus reassure
3. A few weeks back I read that engineers at Google is trying to push a standard where many components in a computer (desktop/laptop/handheld etc.) is on a constant voltage. Stepping up or down voltage is inefficient.
Going back to your earlier post, you indirectly suggest that I should avoid using application e.g. Microsoft Excel which runs in emulation mode i.e. Rossetta which is power intensive(?). Okay, I will stop and refrain from using Microsoft Office apps to conserve battery life, sir. Then the point of owning a MacBook is what? Don't get me wrong, I think Safari and iTunes are important.
A lot of people here have continue to suggest that I need to turn my screen brightness and Wi-Fi off and use it wisely. I also mistakenly said that I used full brightness screen to get 3:10 hours of use yesterday, when infact OSX automatically dims it down which i didn't notice. So, at 75% brightness, I still get only 3:10 hours of use with Wi-Fi on, Safari and Excel running.
Maybe I'm unrealistic with MacBook battery performance. On-the-other-hand, I know that a Dell (HP or Gateway) will not perform any better and they looks atrocious. I brought the MacBook for its aesthetics and OSX, in addition, I've been using Apple computer for a long time from the G3 beige box desktop to the G4 TiBook and now a MacBook.
So we are back to where we started. Okay, it is fair to suggest that i rant, but I perfer to think that it was raising a fair common problem with laptop in general. I must admit that there are people here who are very defensive of Apple i.e. Apple can do no wrong. I own Apple stock when it was at $15 and unload a few share yesterday @ $86, but my blinders are off. I want them to continue to innovate and produce compelling product that will change the technological landscape. But at the end of the day, to me, Apple is still a company however cool/hip they maybe.
if you can find that articles that those engineers try to push that standard, i'd be interested to read it.
ms office uses rosetta to run, which is more memory intensive and CPU intensive, therefore consumes more power.
it's unrealistic to demand 6 hrs out of battery of the size macbook uses. with the current technology and the stuff you do on your computer.
There is really not much of a different with volume. Those little buzzers aren't going to draw that much power at full volume.
Obviously you didn't bother to read the post I replied to... which said "no matter what."
I was being jovial, but I think it's funny that you create a "normal" usage scenario for millions of people. Strangely enough, adding in Word will dramatically reduce your battery life.
Apple doesn't give "average" battery life, just as other companies don't. They give you the max battery life when it's pretty much being unused =p