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.

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Todd Phillips

Your advice would apply to any laptop. Battery life is completely dependent on CPU usage.

Rich DeRuiter

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/188816#Comment_188816

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).

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/188828#Comment_188828

(unless you have a SSD, of course).

Of course, the SSD would also draw more power when it's in heavy use, too.

Cameron Watters (Faithlife)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/188828#Comment_188828

unless you have a SSD, of course).

The new MacBook Air's ship with flash storage hard-wired to the board.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/188988#Comment_188988

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 [:)]

Kevin A. Purcell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/188988#Comment_188988

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.