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Show battery time remaining in Mac OS X 10.8+ Mountain Lion and Mavericks
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MacBook Pro - forces use of discrete graphcis #74

Closed lucas-nelson closed 11 years ago

lucas-nelson commented 11 years ago

MacBookPro10,1 (15" MacBook Pro; "Retina, Mid 2012") OSX 10.9 Observing using the Activity Monitor→Energy→Graphics Card (or using gfxCardStatus from http://gfx.io/) Battery Time Remaining versions 2.0.1 and 1.6.4

When running Battery Time Remaining 2, the graphics card is forced into discrete mode. Attempting to push it back to integrated mode, gfxCardStatus indicates that Battery Time Remaining 2 is the reason it can't (see attached image).

Same behaviour for Battery Time Remaining 1.

Using the discrete graphics mode consumes more battery power.

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PS: gfx.io recommends this article for review: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1734/_index.html

codler commented 11 years ago

Thanks for finding it! I only have a Macbook air 13"

lucas-nelson commented 10 years ago

Confirmed (for me at least). v2.0.2 leaves me using integrated graphics mode, Thanks!