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My 2012 MacBook Air on a full charge only lasts 2-2.5 hours during an intense coding session. Am I the only one?
by Axsuul 13y ago
My 2012 MacBook Air on a full charge only lasts 2-2.5 hours during an intense coding session. Am I the only one?
- jlgreco 13y agoThat probably depends wildly on what an "intense coding session" entails. Do you have an IDE that is keeping your CPU pegged by constantly rebuilding everything every time you enter a character? Or do you code in Vim and build every few minutes at the absolute most?
- rsynnott 13y agoThat seems abnormal, though possibly bad IDE behaviour? What is CPU usage like at this point? Also, might be worth giving this a go: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget-20 http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget-... Some badly behaved software (notably Netflix's Silverlight thing) will seemingly peg the CPU at maximum turbo-boost frequency for no good reason, which hits power usage hard.
- driverdan 13y agoSounds reasonable if you have your brightness way up and have CPU intensive apps running like VMs.