Apple answers MacBook Pro battery gripes -- by yanking time-remaining estimate

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3150568/apple-mac/apple-answers-macbook-pro-battery-gripes-by-yanking-time-remaining-estimate.html#tk.rss_news XB -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the

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THat is very very odd. You are oneof the odd machines, I mean your machine is one of the oddones. Is anybody else having this odd issue or something? On Nov 18, 2010, at 17:57, Les Kriegler wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > Well, I just had my wife look at the display. She said the brightness was > not

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Hi Sarah, Well, I just had my wife look at the display. She said the brightness was not good at all until i started raising it with the F F2 key combination. When at 100%, she stated it was much improved. So it would appear that the setting is being held on my machine at 0%. Les -- You re

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You might try pressing F1 or function F1 a couple times to make sure it's totally at 0 percent. On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:42 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > Hi Sarah and Mike, > > I was expecting to have to turn brightness down every time, I should have > someone check. All I know is that VO reports the

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I try to remember to change it to 5 percent before shutting down, but as soon as it's booted, I change it to 0 percent, no sense wasting any battery power on a display I can't read. On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > If the brigtness is set to 0, it indeed goes back to

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Hi Sarah and Mike, I was expecting to have to turn brightness down every time, I should have someone check. All I know is that VO reports the brightness being at 1% or 0% every time I check, not sure it tracks the actual percentage properly, but it certainly appears to hold the initial setting

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Hi, If the brigtness is set to 0, it indeed goes back to 100% on a restart of the computer. Maybe your brigtness isn't set to 0? If you have it set to like 5% this doesn't happen. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Nov 18

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Huh? it should not be. I know it is not on mine as I get a pain in my eye when I turn on the mac from the screen brightness hence why I turn it off.Ican work with out a headache. On Nov 16, 2010, at 20:23, Les Kriegler wrote: > Mike, on my desktop, the System Profiler icon is accessible, so I

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it is on yours, I have to reset the brightness very time I boot up and sometimes i forget I'm getting a solid 4-5 hours depending n what I do i missed the new 10 hour mbp by 4 weeks and didn't kow it was coming out you would think that the lady at the apple store woudl have told me of cours

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Mike, on my desktop, the System Profiler icon is accessible, so I can go in there with minimal keystrokes. When on the list of choices, I hit letter P until getting to the Power option, open it, tab once and then the battery information is available on that screen. I've turned down the brightn

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Go into the utilities folder and open system profiler. That will give you all the info about your computer. On Nov 15, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hello. > How can I tel which macbook model I have? Is it possible that I purchased an > earlier model? > It reports core2 duo 2.66

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Hello Nektarios, You can find out all about your Mac by getting Coconut Identity Card from: Cheers, Anne On 16 Nov 2010, at 04:20, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hello. > How can I tel which macbook model I have? Is it possible that

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Thanks. I will give it a try. Nektarios. On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Braille wrote: > Check with coconut battery, a small app that gives some information about > your battery. You can download it here: > http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/ > > Second, open system preference, acc

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Hello. How can I tel which macbook model I have? Is it possible that I purchased an earlier model? It reports core2 duo 2.66 GHZ, 4 GB of ram and 320 GB hard drive. What else should I look for, to determine my model? Nektarios. On Nov 15, 2010, at 8:41 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > I can get a

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You should get muchmore than 3 hours, especially if the brightness is 0, are you remembering to turn it down to zero each time? The mac assmes that if you shut down with a brightness of 0 and you might forget and think your display is not working the next time you power up. So, if you shut down

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Check with coconut battery, a small app that gives some information about your battery. You can download it here: http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/ Second, open system preference, account, and log in items, and make sure that only necessary apps are running. Thirdly, VO uses near

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Hello. set your prefs in energy savings for the computer to never go to sleep. you will get a warning about it but you can check the box to never show it again then leave your computer on when you sleep and in the morning you will have a freshly dead mbp on your hands. lol! S On Nov 15, 2010, a

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I can get about 5 hours out of it buti have the older model. S On Nov 15, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hello list. This computer has long battery life according to the specs. They > say up to 10 hours. > I new that this is not true, especially for us voice over users. However, I

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You could just keep typing and reading emails till you et the ding and the low battery message.:) On Nov 15, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Yes, I will do that. > I don't know if it is possible to let it drain completely since the Os will > go to sleep before that but I will try.

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p. These are the kind of thing only experienced power users will know. I am not one of those experienced power users, but those are the things you want to look for. good luck! Isaac - Original Message - From: "Nektarios Mallas" To: Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 10:20 AM Su

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Yes, I will do that. I don't know if it is possible to let it drain completely since the Os will go to sleep before that but I will try. Thanks. Nektarios. On Nov 15, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Nektarios, > > Three hours for a new MBP is terrible! Did you let the battery

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Hi Nektarios: That sure doesn't sound right to me. I generally get about 6 hours per charge, and I'm always amazed when I go back to my old PC and it runs out after 3. You may want to take that rascal into an Apple store for a check-up if you can. I know they'll do their best to make it right

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Hello Nektarios, Three hours for a new MBP is terrible! Did you let the battery drain completely once to calibrate it? If not, try doing so and then see what happens. It could be that it is misreporting the amount of charge remaining. Cheers, Anne On 15 Nov 2010, at 16:20, Nektarios Mallas w

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Hello list. This computer has long battery life according to the specs. They say up to 10 hours. I new that this is not true, especially for us voice over users. However, I am getting about 3 hours when the battery is fully charged. Is this normal? I of course have my screen brightness to 0. Wi

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hat charge will last. Bryan -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cody Hurst Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 9:00 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: MacBook Pro battery The battery issue when you first

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James: a remark you made has me curious: Please write me off list with the answer, if you don't mind: How is the issue of being deaf-blind related to the Mac? being great for you In other words, are you referring to it's ability to pair with braille displays? Thanks for any info. Carolyn ch...@

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damn! I wish mine got that much battery, but I have the one before the current one that is out now. so my MBP gives me about 7 hours or so of battery. GF On Jun 25, 2010, at 9:08 AM, James Gallagher wrote: > hello Cody > > I have the screen off and the keyboard off to I have no sight so they

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Not sure about the battery, but if you press control + option + K this will put you into keyboard help mode and from there you can practice various keyboard gestures and voiceover will read out the actions to you. On 25 Jun 2010, at 13:33, James Gallagher wrote: > Hello all. > > Just got My Mac

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hello Cody I have the screen off and the keyboard off to I have no sight so they not needed for me Just put off the Bluetooth forgot about that one Cody. On 25 Jun 2010, at 14:00, Cody Hurst wrote: > I got my new macbook pro last night and this morning it read 15 hours. I hope that you enjoy y

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The battery issue when you first turn it on it says calculating, and it depends on many thingsmainly if the screen is off and if you aren't using bluetooth then turn blue tooth off by pressing VO m twice and arrowing right to the bluetooth menu. sometimes it just takes some time for the batt

MacBook Pro battery

Hello all. Just got My MacBook pro over 24 hours ago and I am over the moon with it. For a Deafblind person I really think it Great.. May I ask a question Please about the battery. Last night i had the Macbook pro on the mains to charge it. after the charge it read that it had 10 hours and 13min