![]() ![]() Project Catalyst actually had a sort of practice run in Mojave, although back then it was known as Marzipan. But the new OS is paving the way for even more Mac apps, which is a good thing. If you were expecting an influx of third party apps arriving on the Mac you’ll be disappointed though as there haven’t been many. With the arrival of Catalina Apple introduced a simple way for developers to port their apps over to the Mac. Some developers (such as Twitter) originally made two separate apps and then ditched the Mac app because of the work involved. Prior to Catalyst the amount of time and money involved in creating two different apps, one for iOS and one for Mac, meant that developers focused on the more profitable and popular iOS. Project Catalyst is Apple’s strategy for getting iOS developers to start porting their apps to the Mac. ![]() However, there are other changes that will hopefully mean more of your favourite iOS apps will be making their way to the Mac and we’ll talk about that next. I do wonder whether discharges below 50% and charges above 90% may also have some impact on battery life, and whether Apple could include management controls to switch the charge current completely off above and below some percent of charge limits.While Sidecar means you can essentially run macOS on your iPad, as long as you are within 10 meters of your iPad at least, it doesn’t mean that you can run iOS on your Mac – it doesn’t work in the other direction. However, the Apple page does not comment about possible impacts on battery life related to discharges below a certain level or full charges to 100%. The way to avoid this risk is to charge at low amperage levels (relative to a battery's amp hour capacity) or switch to a very low (trickle charge) amperage level as the battery approaches full charge.Īpple says it switches to a trickle charge level above 80% charge, and I am sure this does extend battery life. The page you referenced notes that allowing a battery's temperature to rise to a high level as it approaches full charge at high amperage levels (relative to the battery's amp hour capacity) will shorten the battery's life. As it turns out, I am a long time remote control car user and I am very experienced in recharging batteries. Thanks for that Apple page reference, I had not seen it. Every once in a while a macOS engineer has been known to inadvertently divulge something else (I'm only being partially facetious). If you want to learn more than that, the best I can suggest is to participate in the Developer Forums. Follow them and your MBP's battery will last a long time. Here's some more: Batteries - Maximizing Performance - Apple. Luis Sequeira1 already posted the starting point for all that is known to the rest of us. The overwhelming majority of MacBook users never need to replace its battery over the entire Mac's useful life. Apple has more experience extracting maximum performance from portable devices than any company on Earth. ![]() The point is that you will hear all sorts of weird allegations posted to this site, and it's presumptuous to assume a MacBook's power management isn't already highly refined. Apple's Mac division absolutely, positively does not discuss those details with anyone else. Portable Mac power management systems (both hardware and software) are considered highly valuable intellectual property. Maybe an Apple rep will jump into this thread and tell us. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |