{"id":22333,"date":"2018-08-01T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22333"},"modified":"2018-08-01T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T20:20:07","slug":"low-power-mode-on-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/low-power-mode-on-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Power Mode on the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2018\/07\/31\/mac-low-power-mode\">Marco Arment<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoarment\/status\/1024372482885730305\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2018\/07\/31\/mac-low-power-mode\"><p>Whose work <em>does<\/em> get 10 hours out of a MacBook Pro? None of the use-cases on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbook-pro\/\">the marketing page<\/a> &mdash; Photography, Coding, Video Editing, 3D Graphics, and Gaming &mdash; are likely to achieve even half of that in practice.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, you just need Low Power Mode: the switch added to iOS a few years ago to conserve battery life when you need it, at the expense of full performance and background tasks.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s no such feature on Mac laptops, but there should be.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&rsquo;ve been running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugarciap.com\/turbo-boost-switcher-for-os-x\/\">Turbo Boost Switcher Pro<\/a> to automatically disable Turbo Boost when I&rsquo;m running on battery power, and it has been wonderful: I made it through that 8-hour flight only because Turbo Boost was off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/12\/macbook-pro-2018\/\">MacBook Pro 2018<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment (tweet): Whose work does get 10 hours out of a MacBook Pro? None of the use-cases on the marketing page &mdash; Photography, Coding, Video Editing, 3D Graphics, and Gaming &mdash; are likely to achieve even half of that in practice.[&#8230;] Sometimes, you just need Low Power Mode: the switch added to iOS a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-01T20:20:10Z","apple_news_api_id":"7e33a7fe-2d75-49f8-98d3-881061909d0b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-01T20:20:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AfjOn_i11SfiY04gQYZCdCw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,30,100,1529],"class_list":["post-22333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-batterylife","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-13"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22334,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22333\/revisions\/22334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}