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malchow

So is there a guide to battery-optimal MacOS settings? That would be useful.

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These might be useful for you:

https://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/

http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac/17-tips-increase-mac-b...

> Use Invert Colours to save battery life. It takes less battery to display black pixels than white ones.

There's a lot of junk and mostly obvious stuff in the second article.

The tips above (reduce motion and transparency) also work great on iOS devices. Disabling AppNap is also important on battery. On iOS, the system does a lot when entering battery saving mode.

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