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Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:07 pm
by DrDonkeyLove
I downloaded Yosemite and now my Macbook Air runs super hot. Fan goes on all the time and battery life is shit.
I think I killed the resource heavy Fire Vault. I looked at my activity monitor and see that Chrome and/or Safari are having a massive energy impact compared to other things. I really don't know what the numbers specifically mean but I talked to my company IT guy about it and he told me to go with Chrome vs. Safari. That has't made a difference.
Sometimes I need to go for hours on battery power and my laptop has been great until now.
Any Ideas?
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:29 pm
by Thud
I'm not really geeky so take this for what it's worth. Keeping a lot of tabs open in any browser is a drain, it keeps everything in cache. At a minimum quit your ram intensive programs every so often, and reboot the whole rig every couple of days.
Might also want to try a program (or similar) called memory clean. It flushes the cache and frees up ram, but the cache is just gonna fillu up again quicky.
How much ram do you have? I have 16 gigs. Plenty for web and email, etc. But throw Photoshop and some ram hogs in the mix and it's used up quickly.
FWIW, porn is a huge ram hog.
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:31 pm
by Kenny X
The firmware the kernel uses for the fan is probably borked, and the OS may be having trouble with the browser as well. Take that fucking thing to the (Cr)Apple Store and let one of their "Geniuses" look at it.
Also, I feel your pain. My MacBook continually disappoints me these days. Engineered obsolescence. Fuck (Cr)Apple in the neck with a Phillips head screwdriver.
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:33 pm
by TerryB
DrDonkeyLove wrote:I downloaded Yosemite and now my Macbook Air runs super hot. Fan goes on all the time and battery life is shit.
I think I killed the resource heavy Fire Vault. I looked at my activity monitor and see that Chrome and/or Safari are having a massive energy impact compared to other things. I really don't know what the numbers specifically mean but I talked to my company IT guy about it and he told me to go with Chrome vs. Safari. That has't made a difference.
Sometimes I need to go for hours on battery power and my laptop has been great until now.
Any Ideas?
What browser are you using?
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:56 pm
by dead man walking
the battery life on my older macbook pro is perhaps 30-45 mins.
takes forever to charge.
prolly get a new one soon
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 11:16 pm
by DrDonkeyLove
Terry B wrote:DrDonkeyLove wrote:I downloaded Yosemite and now my Macbook Air runs super hot. Fan goes on all the time and battery life is shit.
I think I killed the resource heavy Fire Vault. I looked at my activity monitor and see that Chrome and/or Safari are having a massive energy impact compared to other things. I really don't know what the numbers specifically mean but I talked to my company IT guy about it and he told me to go with Chrome vs. Safari. That has't made a difference.
Sometimes I need to go for hours on battery power and my laptop has been great until now.
Any Ideas?
What browser are you using?
Safari & Chrome
Also, careful about having too many tabs open.
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:14 am
by Protobuilder
DrDonkeyLove wrote:I downloaded Yosemite and now my Macbook Air runs super hot. Fan goes on all the time and battery life is shit.
I think I killed the resource heavy Fire Vault. I looked at my activity monitor and see that Chrome and/or Safari are having a massive energy impact compared to other things. I really don't know what the numbers specifically mean but I talked to my company IT guy about it and he told me to go with Chrome vs. Safari. That has't made a difference.
Sometimes I need to go for hours on battery power and my laptop has been great until now.
Any Ideas?
When Yosemite first came out, Chrome really slowed things down. They actually design the damn thing to use a ton of RAM so the obvious solution would be to add more RAM. I didn't and simply used Safari which worked fine (I tried out Firefox and it was fine as well.). However since 10.10.3 came out a few months ago, I've noticed that Chrome is usable again as long as I don't have that many tabs open. If another browser doesn't speed things up, be sure you are up to date on your OSX.
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 5:51 pm
by TerryB
DrDonkeyLove wrote:Terry B wrote:DrDonkeyLove wrote:I downloaded Yosemite and now my Macbook Air runs super hot. Fan goes on all the time and battery life is shit.
I think I killed the resource heavy Fire Vault. I looked at my activity monitor and see that Chrome and/or Safari are having a massive energy impact compared to other things. I really don't know what the numbers specifically mean but I talked to my company IT guy about it and he told me to go with Chrome vs. Safari. That has't made a difference.
Sometimes I need to go for hours on battery power and my laptop has been great until now.
Any Ideas?
What browser are you using?
Safari & Chrome
Also, careful about having too many tabs open.
When I worked for Apple, that was what seemed to help most people. Avoid having too many tabs open.
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:05 am
by Protobuilder
Terry B wrote:DrDonkeyLove wrote:Terry B wrote:DrDonkeyLove wrote:I downloaded Yosemite and now my Macbook Air runs super hot. Fan goes on all the time and battery life is shit.
I think I killed the resource heavy Fire Vault. I looked at my activity monitor and see that Chrome and/or Safari are having a massive energy impact compared to other things. I really don't know what the numbers specifically mean but I talked to my company IT guy about it and he told me to go with Chrome vs. Safari. That has't made a difference.
Sometimes I need to go for hours on battery power and my laptop has been great until now.
Any Ideas?
What browser are you using?
Safari & Chrome
Also, careful about having too many tabs open.
You were a genius?
When I worked for Apple, that was what seemed to help most people. Avoid having too many tabs open.
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:31 am
by TerryB
Protobuilder wrote:Terry B wrote:DrDonkeyLove wrote:Terry B wrote:DrDonkeyLove wrote:I downloaded Yosemite and now my Macbook Air runs super hot. Fan goes on all the time and battery life is shit.
I think I killed the resource heavy Fire Vault. I looked at my activity monitor and see that Chrome and/or Safari are having a massive energy impact compared to other things. I really don't know what the numbers specifically mean but I talked to my company IT guy about it and he told me to go with Chrome vs. Safari. That has't made a difference.
Sometimes I need to go for hours on battery power and my laptop has been great until now.
Any Ideas?
What browser are you using?
Safari & Chrome
Also, careful about having too many tabs open.
You were a genius?
When I worked for Apple, that was what seemed to help most people. Avoid having too many tabs open.
:dunce
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:36 am
by Protobuilder
Protobot wrote:Protobuilder wrote:Terry B wrote:DrDonkeyLove wrote:Terry B wrote:DrDonkeyLove wrote:I downloaded Yosemite and now my Macbook Air runs super hot. Fan goes on all the time and battery life is shit.
I think I killed the resource heavy Fire Vault. I looked at my activity monitor and see that Chrome and/or Safari are having a massive energy impact compared to other things. I really don't know what the numbers specifically mean but I talked to my company IT guy about it and he told me to go with Chrome vs. Safari. That has't made a difference.
Sometimes I need to go for hours on battery power and my laptop has been great until now.
Any Ideas?
What browser are you using?
Safari & Chrome
Also, careful about having too many tabs open.
You were a genius?
When I worked for Apple, that was what seemed to help most people. Avoid having too many tabs open.
:dunce
Re: Apple, why you do me like this?
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 2:05 am
by DrDonkeyLove
Thanks gentlemen and former genius.
I have an appt. w/the Genius Bar at the end of this week.