{"id":153,"date":"2008-11-06T06:52:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/installingcats.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2008-11-06T06:52:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T11:52:29","slug":"macbook-longer-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/2008\/11\/06\/macbook-longer-battery-life\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Longer Battery Life Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Tip for a longer MacBook Pro battery life (with LED backlit screens): Make a <strong>Hot Corner<\/strong> for turning off the screen and use it whenever you&#8217;re not actually looking at the screen. (System Preferences -&gt; Desktop &amp; Screen Saver -&gt; Hot Corners&#8230; [button])<a href=\"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/hot_sleep_corner-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-medium wp-image-154\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: right;\" title=\"MacBook Sleep Display Hot Corner\" src=\"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/hot_sleep_corner-1-300x258.gif\" alt=\"MacBook Sleep Display Hot Corner\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me and do multiple things while working with your MacBook, there are times when you&#8217;re not actually looking at the screen.\u00a0 Quickly swipe your mouse to the Hot Corner you&#8217;ve setup for <strong>Sleep Display<\/strong> and you&#8217;ll reap instant power savings with very little cost in terms of downtime\/wake time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fluorescent tube<\/strong> backlit screens unfortunately have a warm-up\/cool-down time that causes the screen to appear dark when first lit and slowly increase in brightness as the backlighting tube warms up.\u00a0 <strong>LED backlit<\/strong> screens <em>brighten instantly<\/em> to their preset level, so take advantage of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Tip for a longer MacBook Pro battery life (with LED backlit screens): Make a Hot Corner for turning off the screen and use it whenever you&#8217;re not actually looking at the screen. (System Preferences -&gt; Desktop &amp; Screen Saver -&gt; Hot Corners&#8230; [button]) If you&#8217;re like me and do multiple things while working with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[200,201,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}