In a recent blog post, Google noted how Google Chrome 110.0.5481.177, the latest version of its web browser, now features optimizations that are designed to preserve battery life. The post noted that Chrome can now browse the Internet for 17 hours or watch YouTube for 18 hours on a 13-inch MacBook Pro notebook. With improvements […]
This could come in handy. With version 108 of the Google Chrome web browser, Google is introducing Memory Saver and Energy Saver modes to improve the browser’s performance and extend battery life, respectively. If users head to Settings, they’ll see a new “Performance” menu in the sidebar. The Memory Saver “frees up memory from inactive […]
At long last, your mid-2011 and mid-2012 MacBook Air notebooks will be able to nap. Per AppleInsider, a pair of firmware updates released by Apple on Wednesday enable the Power Nap in certain MacBook Air models that were promised the feature but found it missing when OS X Mountain Lion launched on Wednesday. Apple rolled […]
Apple may be planning an enhancement to its next-generation MacBook Pros that will allow for automatic switching between integrated and discrete graphics processors based on whichever is the more optimal technology (power consumption vs. performance) at any given time. Per AppleInsider, Apple, which has offered two NVIDIA graphics processors in its 17″ and higher-end 15″ […]