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mhaeuser / Battery-Toolkit

Control the platform power state of your Apple Silicon Mac.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Intel CPU support? #15

Open davidkaufman opened 3 months ago

davidkaufman commented 3 months ago

What would be needed to support Intel-based macs too?

I use my mid-2018 Intel Macbook Pro as a desktop computer 100% of the time and have had to replace the battery TWICE now, because over time the battery swells up dangerously when it's plugged into power 24/7/365.

So I'd love to help work on bringing this very cool and much-needed app to all the users of older Intel-based Macbook Pro users too!

Thanks!

mhaeuser commented 3 months ago

Intel machines use different SMC keys and sometimes even logic (charging on/off vs explicit threading on SMC-level). I don’t have an Intel machine, so I can’t test support and am not interested in implementing it myself. If you want to PR it, AlDente Free has some documentation of how it works on Intel.