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Old 04-08-2007, 03:01 PM
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MacBook Pro Battery Consumption
Has anyone noticed while running SageTV Place Shifter in fullscreen that the battery goes to reserve in about 20 mins from a full charge?

Performance is set to Better Battery Life.

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Old 04-08-2007, 08:17 PM
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You can try disabling Video Post Processing to reduce CPU load and increase battery life. However, if the battery is draining in 20 minutes, there's probably something wrong with the laptop. Even with the CPU pegged, you should at least get 1.5 hours out of the battery. Maybe you need to recalibrate the battery in the "BIOS" (OpenFirmware)
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Old 04-08-2007, 08:29 PM
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Not a problem unless I run SageTV PS.

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Old 04-09-2007, 03:36 PM
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Is the battery actually draining or is your computer just shutting down because it thinks it's low on power?
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Old 04-10-2007, 10:53 AM
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Has anyone noticed while running SageTV Place Shifter in fullscreen that the battery goes to reserve in about 20 mins from a full charge?

Performance is set to Better Battery Life.

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When you are wathing TV, what is your CPU usage?

On my MacBook (2Ghz Core Duo), mplayer uses around 45% and SageTV placeshifter uses around 8%. Total is around 53% on average.

I just tested this out and I get about 1.2, maybe 1.3 hours of Live TV on a fully charged battery. My power settings are also set to "Better Battery Life".

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Old 04-10-2007, 11:15 AM
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I just downloaded and ran coconutbattery. Looks like my battery is defective. Capacity is not where it should be.

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