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OS X Mountain Lion may be degrading battery life, test shows

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I've noticed my battery draining VERY fast since Mountain Lion.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to stop this madnessss?
 
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I have/had the same issue, but I believe it went away after I disabled location services. I haven't really noticed a difference in battery drain since.
 
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jmoss23 said:
I've noticed my battery draining VERY fast since Mountain Lion.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to stop this madnessss?
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Start disabling things. Begin with location services, local time machine backups, external disk indexing in spotlight, bluetooth, etc. Anything that transmits/receives anything that you're not using.
 
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I have noticed the same issues with my battery life and I have also discovered that my graphics card is not switching. Instead of typically running on the integrated Intel card, it is always using the AMD one.
 
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With all these early glitches. I may hold off on installing ML till there's a newer upgrade available.
 

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