![]() No need to actively spend time tweaking it and changing things in order to get the best out of it, like you might do with a PC.īest advice I can give is to treat things like turbo boost switcher as a nice little add-on hack to give you improved battery and temps when you’re on the go. That is to say, your Mac was built and optimized to perform in a certain way that allows you to just sit back and use it as a tool do your work or create your art. I am always reminded of a quote I heard years ago when it comes to situations like this - “You’re not meant to be the janitor of your Mac”. It’s great, and will give you a visual representation of how high your clock speed goes during anything you do. If you don’t already have it, I highly recommend downloading Intel Power Gadget. In general, turbo boosting improve a broad range of tasks, even something as simple as how quickly an app will open. ![]() There’s an app called Endurance on SetApp that seems to control turbo boost and more, but as I have these already I haven’t tried it.So my recommendation here would be to run the setting where it automatically disables turbo boost on battery power (helps to get you through a long day of schooling/lectures) and then enables turbo boost when connected back to power. ![]() When Apple controls its own chips I expect this to become obsolete, but currently I find it helps battery life to turn off turbo. My primary thing here is it means my Mac runs cooler for lap use, but it also helps battery. Turbo Boost Switcher: allows me to stop the Mac using turbo boost. It’s a bit finicky on a newer OS (settings don’t always stick correctly) but I’ve used it for over a year and it’s fine. Graphic works fine like this still and battery life makes a massive improvement. GfxCardStatus: allows me to force my Mac to use the low performance gpu. I don’t actually use any particular energy saving routines except closing the lid frequently (touch id is great here), but I have found these 2 apps: I’ve been fighting the same battle recently, with the additional challenge of using the app Graphic that forces the high performance GPU into use and kills battery life. And I’m also told that Chromebooks can easily get 10+ hours of battery life without having to do any tricks at all. ![]() For me, that’s Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams.īy taking these four measures, I was able to get about nine hours’ usage out of my MacBook Pro on Monday.ĭo you have any tricks for getting more out of a laptop battery? I’m told shutting off Bluetooth helps, but in practice I haven’t found it to matter much. Use Activity Monitor to find which apps are using the most energy and shut them down. ![]() I close the lid if I think it’s going to be a while, and for short periods I have a hot corner set up to shut off the screen when I move the mouse to the bottom right corner.
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