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Two best explanations: 1. Screen brightness can be dimmed in full screen mode without a perceivable difference. 2. App nap. It's a macOS feature that dials do
by abalone 9y ago
Two best explanations:
1. Screen brightness can be dimmed in full screen mode without a perceivable difference.
2. App nap. It's a macOS feature that dials down the power consumption of apps when their windows aren't visible.
- thanatropism 9y agoApp nap is amazing. Mac OS X reached an astounding level of technical goodness in Snow Leopard. Downhill since then. When my Macbook died I bought a refurbished, shitty Chromebook. Living off Azure Notebooks for any kind of computing...
- PascLeRasc 9y agoApp nap is really great, I agree. But you know you can still run Snow Leopard, right? You could get an older pre-retina MBP for like $400 to run it at about the same speed as a Chromebook will run ChromeOS.
- ctrlrsf 9y agoMuch less secure though.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- zyb09 9y agoOSX is still pretty great. After Snow Leopard, for a while it looked like OSX is gonna turn into "iOS Desktop Edition", starting with Lion. But that never really happened, Sierra is a very nice OS, and High Sierra is basically the same thing with the OS using Metal. (Now if only Apple would sell a Macbook or iMac with 512 SSD & 16 GB RAM for a reasonable price)
- gok 9y agoWhat? App nap was added many releases after Snow Leopard. Edit: 3 releases actually. (Mavericks)
- thanatropism 9y agoSorry, I meant memory compression. Memory compression is just awesome.
- gok 9y agoMemory compression was also added in Mavericks.
- thanatropism 9y agoThen... what was it that dramatically increased my battery life from Leopard to Snow Leopard? (I might be misremembering everything.)