Thanks Grant, I'm back up to about 7 to 8 hours of battery life now after killing a badly behaved Windows process. But I may well still go with Pro. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 21/09/2015, at 11:12 AM, Grant <grant.li...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Depending on which Macbook Pro you’ve bought and which Macbook Air it’s > replacing, the designed battery life may be less right off the bat. According > to VMWare’s documentation, VMWare Fusion Pro 8 does indeed allow power users > to specify whether integrated or discrete graphics are used. I’m running 7.1 > Pro at the moment, and this reason alone may be worth taking the plunge and > upgrading to 8 down the road. Meanwhile, the settings you’ve changed are the > only graphics-related tweaks I can think of off the bat. Three hours of > battery life seems rather low, though. It may be worth testing with a fresh > virtual machine just for troubleshooting purposes and/or testing the battery > life on your computer in general to make sure it’s not the battery. I’ve been > using my Macbook Pro late 2013 now for about half an hour. I have several OS > X apps open like Mail, Messages, ReadKit and Skype, but I also have Windows > 10 running in VMWare Fusion. I’ve downloaded and updated my version of JAWS > using my virtual machine, and have also done some light web browsing. My > battery is at 89% with 6:59 of estimated time remaining. That’s probably a > little optimistic, but I’d expect to get over three hours for sure. > > All this said, VMWare Fusion is certainly a heavy energy consumer, that’s for > sure. I too enjoy the freedom of switching easily between Mac and Windows > apps, but most of my time is spent in OS X. If Windows truly is your primary > OS it may be worth trying to get along with Boot Camp. It seems that there’s > a lot of extra resources that could go to your primary OS if it were running > natively. > > Grant > > On Sep 19, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org > <mailto:jmo...@mosen.org>> wrote: > > Hi everyone, since migrating from a Macbook Air to a retina Macbook Pro, > battery life when using Fusion has been very disappointing. Obviously I'd > expect to take a bit of a hit, since I'm running two operating systems at > once, but in some cases I am only getting about three hours. It was far > better with the Air. > I'm looking for strategies to do all I can to maximise battery life as I > enjoy having access to both operating systems at once, and would prefer not > to Bootcamp if I can help it. Windows is my primary OS though, so I need to > try and improve the situation. > I've gone into the virtual machine settings and have disabled graphics > acceleration. I've also told it not to use full resolution for retina display. > I'll ask VMWare directly, but right now their support seems to be going > through a system upgrade. > One thing in researching this issue is that it would appear VMWare Fusion Pro > may be better at giving you control over whether the virtual machine uses the > dedicated GPU or not, which I think is probably what's doing a lot of the > draining. > Can anyone confirm that VMWare Fusion Pro might be a better bet in terms of > energy consumption? > Thanks a lot. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > > Grant > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
