Apple to Introduce New Macs at October 27 Event

englishpremier said:
So it's now exactly the same as the US one?

I never understood why the UK one only had little icons on the keys rather than actually saying Option, Command, Control. Just seemed weird.
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It's just like American cars though. They'd have BRAKE illuminate rather than the handbrake symbol for example.
 
WuMyster said:
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Looks like it's been changed.
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It's at times like this I remember I have a Canadian MacBook... My 2011 looks like that (because I bought it in Canada on a holiday).

It was a little annoying to begin with, using a NA keyboard with British English but you get used to it, although I still have no idea how to type the "hash" symbol... (3/hash symbol gives me £).:p
 
So I've been doing my usual OCUK web-browsing / occasional youtube watching / Christmas shopping. 85% battery left and been going 1.5 hours.... pretty sure the battery issues are overstated... will see how it holds up.
 
Nitefly said:
So I've been doing my usual OCUK web-browsing / occasional youtube watching / Christmas shopping. 85% battery left and been going 1.5 hours.... pretty sure the battery issues are overstated... will see how it holds up.
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They have just been fixed in 10.12.2

Basically when running low power tasks the cpus weren't clocking down
 
Hmm I can sort of see what people mean if they are running it for tasks that they wouldn't typically consider battery draining. I downloaded some photos from the cloud and browsed through them and battery loss during this period was about 50% faster than web browsing. I'm more used to a fairy consistent drain with other laptops.

After about 4 hours use and two overnight sleeps it's on 50% now.
 
I thought the issue wasn't so much the CPUs not clocking down but MacOS' interpretation of CPU usage and it's display of that in hours and minutes which they've taken away in the recent update?
 
Well the best way in judging it is with the watts drain which you can measure with something like coconut battery. Mine sits at 3-5 watts typically. Can jump to 12-15.
 
matt100 said:
I thought the issue wasn't so much the CPUs not clocking down but MacOS' interpretation of CPU usage and it's display of that in hours and minutes which they've taken away in the recent update?
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Its an odd issue really. I assume there was/is an issue with that amount of time people are getting from their new macbooks because not everyone is an idiot who complains without engaging their brains.

Conversely, apple have removed the estimated time left because people were seeing 9hrs then wondering why they only got 4.5hrs. They ignored the fact that the 9hrs was when they were doing nothing or just browsing in safari and then got down to playing 4k video, using chrome and photoshop etc.

The estimate has always been useful for me but only as a "if you keep doing what you are doing at this exact moment you will get roughly this amount of battery life".

As far as I know, apple haven't admitted to any issue or any changes to power management. 10.12.2 just removed the estimate.
 
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