Today I killed Dropbox and Copy, then I killed Skype, turned the WiFi off, and my 13″ MacBook Air was getting about 6.5 hours worth of battery life. This is very close to the 7 hours that Apple claims will work (though they do say 7 hours of wireless usage). Chrome, Firefox had tabs running, I was working in Mail and Terminal a lot, as well as Keynote (with 15 apps running when i mac+tab)<\/p>\n
So what’s missing is battery profiles.<\/p>\n
When plugged in, CrashPlan, Dropbox, Copy, etc. run.<\/p>\n
When on the battery, CrashPlan, Dropbox, Copy, Time Machine, etc. stop running.<\/p>\n
When on the battery with no WiFi, maybe Evernote sync stops, Google Drive stops, etc.<\/p>\n
This app should make sure its all configurable.<\/p>\n
Why hasn’t this appeared yet?<\/p>\n
Maybe OS X Mavericks will rock in this sense since the CPU usage is only for the current running app, not those background running apps.<\/p>\n
I’m willing to bet this kind of app makes sense even on Linux and Windows. We’re using apps that increasingly sync to the network. Some are badly behaved.<\/p>\n
Road warriors need better solutions. And I bet they’d pay for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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