• kadu@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Still far from ideal, though. My 2017 MacBook Air with a severely degraded battery lasts 4 hours on macOS, but only 2.5h on Ubuntu 24.04 using the power saving profile - and that’s with less intensive usage, as macOS keeps rendering gaussian blurs everywhere and launchpad and spotlight and all those annoying services.

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      7 months ago

      Well this change can’t improve anything about Power Saver. It only affects Balanced which now should be a bit less of a gas guzzler.

      And yes, even the most aggressive power saving we have at the moment isn’t anything to write home about. If we paid 10 developers to hunt down power drain issues and submit fixes for a few years we may get closer to macOS. 😂

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      7 months ago

      The great irony is, when I ran Windows native on those Intel Macbooks, I was getting better battery and performance than with macOS.

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        Not sure why your comment was downvoted, you’re actually correct, Windows is got better battery life. The only reason I’m not running it on this MacBook is an unpatched bug in the Intel HD Graphics driver that prevents it from working with newer Windows versions on MacBooks with this specific display adapter.