How to increase battery life MacBook Pro with Retina-display


He was a hell of a powerful, there mad a screen with a resolution, but if on a single charge, he works almost threefold less than the stated, it is still wrong. On the Apple support forums have repeatedly discussed the nasty bug when the battery from the MacBook Pro Retina-screen , they say, "not live" in general. However, the solution may be useful to anyone with a new Pro, regardless of whether he had seen this bug or not.
Identify the symptoms of the problem there is no difficulty. Just instead of 7 hours of battery life MacBook in power saving mode operates on the strength of two and a half hours. If you repeatedly witness this - and if you do not get - that your path lies in the following folder:

/ Users / [your username] / Library / Preferences /
Will be abbreviated as follows:
~ / Library / Preferences /

There com.apple.desktop.plist locate the file and delete it, then restart the Dock. You can do this in two ways: either close the current session from the menu bar, and logged in again, or by entering the command in Terminal «killall Dock». Note: at this stage of your desktop background can be replaced by the standard. Oh, and if you're interested, you mentioned "broken" file system application creates a Migration Assistant.
All bugs from now on end, but if you were not, then the gain can be up to one hour.

In addition, once we plunged into the subject, we want to draw attention to the most useful gfxCardStatus. Once you have downloaded 
utility, you get a nice opportunity to specify explicitly which of the two GPUs to use: integrated or discrete. Check only built - and then you can easily sit for hours that way the new Pro 9 or even 10 (!).

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