Indexing Kills Battery life on MacBook Air
New to Logos 4 Mac edition. Just got my new MacBook Air and wow! Indexing absolutely kills battery life. I get typically 5.5-6.6 hours on this thing. But with indexing it plummets to around 3. Just something to consider. If you need long battery, pause indexing till you can plug in.
Dr. Kevin Purcell, Director of Missions
Brushy Mountain Baptist Association
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Your advice would apply to any laptop. Battery life is completely dependent on CPU usage.
MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540
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Todd Phillips said:
Your advice would apply to any laptop. Battery life is completely dependent on CPU usage.
...and hard drive read/write & spin time. Indexing increases both (unless you have a SSD, of course).
Help links: WIKI; Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)
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Richard DeRuiter said:
(unless you have a SSD, of course).
Of course, the SSD would also draw more power when it's in heavy use, too.
MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540
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Richard DeRuiter said:
unless you have a SSD, of course).
The new MacBook Air's ship with flash storage hard-wired to the board.
Director of Engineering for Enterprise and Operations
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Cameron Watters said:Richard DeRuiter said:
unless you have a SSD, of course).
The new MacBook Air's ship with flash storage hard-wired to the board.
Found article with New MacBook Air tear down => http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Air-11-Inch-Model-A1370-Teardown/3745/1
Computer Geek fascination: mSATA SSD for storage (potentially upgradeable - has micro SATA connector and 1 screw connection to motherboard)
MacBook Air RAM is surface mounted on both sides of logic board - not upgradeable.
Keep Smiling [:)]
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While it is not an enclosed drive as most are, it is a module that theoretically can be removed/upgraded if one has access to the same kind of module, as the above post suggests.
Dr. Kevin Purcell, Director of Missions
Brushy Mountain Baptist Association0
