Hi, Its not the case on IOS either.
Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 2, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > Interesting. I guess that's not the case on OSX. Not sure why though. > > CB > > On 4/1/13 4:40 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: >> Slightly off the topic but since iOS 6 or perhaps even 5 screen curtain now >> turns off backlighting so will save battery on your iDevices with out >> having to set brightness right down. At least that was mentioned in a couple >> of podcasts I herd. >> >> Danny. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 02/04/2013, at 4:19 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: >> >>> While screen curtain will black out the screen, it does not turn off the >>> backlighting so doing F1 a bunch of times will still save a bunch of >>> battery life. I do wonder if screen curtain saves power from not running >>> the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) since nothing is being put on the >>> screen? Might be some help but turning of the backlight will help a lot. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 4/1/13 7:13 AM, Chris H wrote: >>>> Turn screen curtain on with ctrl-option-shift-f11. >>>> >>>> >>>> Christopher Hallsworth >>>> E-mail and Facebook: >>>> challswor...@sky.com >>>> Skype: >>>> chrishallsworth7266 >>>> Twitter: >>>> http://www.twitter.com/@christopherh40 >>>> Find my blog at >>>> challsworth2.wordpress.com >>>> >>>> On 01/04/2013 05:10, anita wrote: >>>>> Hi List, >>>>> Besides dimming my screen, is there anything else I can do to retain >>>>> better battery life on my MacBook Pro, and if so how? >>>>> Anita >>>>> >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> -- >>> 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?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
