Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by spockz on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @04:26PM (#34433307)

Thank you! I have turned off a lot of background helpers from apps I don't use anymore and removed some search result types. Docker was in the background helpers multiple times. Let's see how much this helps.

In activity monitor, I also saw that Steam and iStat Menus both hand an "impact" of 50 which made them the top 2, the next had an "impact" of 5.

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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by rigmarole on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:20AM (#34478176)

This might be an old issue, but try turning of the hard drive space indicator in iStats Menu. It was a major drain for me a couple years ago. After a restart, energy use went way down.

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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by spockz on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:55AM (#34593291)

Thank you. As part of the analysis I stopped istats completely as it was one of the main consumers of power.

But I think it must still be something else as it also consumes power in sleep. And I have disabled function to wake up and check mail.

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