I've heard of this happening even when using boot camp. This is one
reason among others why I left the windows world and do everything
using the mac O.S.
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Hi everyone, since migrating from a Macbook Air to a retina Macbook
Pro, battery life when using Fusion has been very disappointing.
Obviously I'd expect to take a bit of a hit, since I'm running two
operating systems at once, but in some cases I am only getting about
three hours. It was far better with the Air.
I'm looking for strategies to do all I can to maximise battery life as
I enjoy having access to both operating systems at once, and would
prefer not to Bootcamp if I can help it. Windows is my primary OS
though, so I need to try and improve the situation.
I've gone into the virtual machine settings and have disabled graphics
acceleration. I've also told it not to use full resolution for retina display.
I'll ask VMWare directly, but right now their support seems to be going
through a system upgrade.
One thing in researching this issue is that it would appear VMWare
Fusion Pro may be better at giving you control over whether the virtual
machine uses the dedicated GPU or not, which I think is probably what's
doing a lot of the draining.
Can anyone confirm that VMWare Fusion Pro might be a better bet in
terms of energy consumption?
Thanks a lot.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org>
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