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simprecicchiani / ThinkPad-T460s-macOS-OpenCore

Bootloader configuration for macOS on T460s and possibly other 6th gen ThinkPads
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Less battery life on macOS #111

Closed luka-zet closed 3 years ago

luka-zet commented 3 years ago

I am using standard settings from this repo and it seems that laptop is using only one battery - it lasts max 2,5-3 hours. In Windows everything is OK, both batteries are visible and battery life is 7-8h. I've checked alternative battery settings and they didn't give anything.

duszmox commented 3 years ago

Sadly, that's not a bug, both of the batteries are in use, but the battery life is just less than the windows one. This is mainly because macOS is a bit more power hungry than windows. On my device I get 5-6 hours on Windows and 4-5 on macOS. Also macOs won't show the two batteries separately because there isn't any macbooks out there with more than battery, so Apple didn't implament this feature. Also if you do the CPUFriend powermanagement fix it will inscrease your battery life quite a bit.

And you could turn off components that you aren't using in the BIOS, for example the WWAN carb because it's not compatible with macOS