We took a couple of international vacations, and iPhoto was a useful tool for managing the photos. It worked well, and my original camera, a Canon Sureshot 2.1 megapixel camera, integrated with it well. Like many Apple users, when I bought a digital camera in 2003, I naturally gravitated to using the bundled iPhoto. Not sure if this is an apple problem, or a google problem, but at least I got my battery life back. Not bad for a laptop nearing 3 years old. Disabling the sync from Google Apps, and boom, I am back to a reasonable run rate.Ģ hours of use, writing blogs, and the like, and I am still at 93%. If you are syncing your contacts with Google Apps accounts (and I was), that often these two services would run rampant, and soak your battery. However, from opening the activity monitor, I noticed that there were two services that were sucking YUUUUUGE amounts of CPU cycles and battery. 4 hours on a charge, watching the battery percentage drop like a late 1960’s Chrysler Newport wagon’s gas gauge on the freeway was no fun. Then El Capitan came, and battery life turned to absolute shit. Still for the added security, I was satisfied.

Often a few days between needing to hook it to the charger.īut with Yosemite, the full disk encryption seemed to take a toll. When I got it, I easily (and I mean really easily) got 12+ hours of normal use on a charge. After yesterday’s post, and one a few weeks back about the aging of my laptop, and how battery life seems to be on the wane, I had a bit of a love-hate thing going with my trusty MacBook Air.

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