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Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?
The biggest background drain on my MacBook Air is DropBox. It keeps trying to make a network connection when there is no wi fi available. Pause syncing on DropBox and the battery life improves.
film42
on Oct 21, 2013
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And then as soon as there is, slam an entire core for about 30sec to calculate diffs. [MBP Quad i7, 16GB, 500GB SSD].
aroch
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If it makes you feel better, Dropbox does the same thing across a few cores on my Xeon E5 under Mavericks.
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