Extending Battery Life of Mac Laptop

[by Peter Krogh]

If you need to get the maximum run time out of a battery charge on your Mac laptop, you’l want to be aware what is running in the background. If I have a long airplane flight, for instance, it can be annoying to run out of battery while I’m still in the air. You can open the Activity Monitor and check what’s running.  One of the surprising culprits – the Finder.  If you have your view options set to “Calculate all sizes”, anytime a finder window is open the computer is constantly recalculating the size of all files.

You can either close all finder windows, or uncheck “calculate all sizes” and get up to 30% more run time from the laptop.

Peter Krogh, author, The DAM Book, Digital Asset Management for Photographers
Second Edition May, 2009. www.theDAMbook.com

By Peter Krogh | Posted: August 19th, 2010 | 2 comments


 

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  1. where exactly do you find that “calculate all sizes” option to uncheck ?

    By matthew blassey | Aug 20, 2010

     

  2. In the View menu, select View Options, and then you’ll see the checkbox near the bottom of the list.

    By Peter Krogh | Aug 23, 2010

     


 

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