You remind me on what early Prius owners would do! It was madding being behind one we would collectively crawled across the intersection as they wanted to build speed up slowly and they often didn’t get to the stop line instead coasting to the stop sign. On the street or highway we would often have to slow down to the posted speed no matter the traffic. Trying to maximize there distance.
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You remind me on what early Prius owners would do! It was madding being behind one we would collectively crawl across the intersection as they wanted to build speed up slowly and they often didn’t get to the stop line instead coasting to the stop sign. On the street or highway we would often have to slow down to the posted speed no matter the traffic. Trying to maximize there distance.
Apples SMC logic is designed to protect your system it’s not really designed to run in CPU at this lower clocking.
OK, how to maximize my run time? Your Mac has two GPUs! The engine within the CPU and the AMD discrete GPU. I would disable using the AMD when power is at a premium. Reducing/removing add-ons apps running also helps. But, the biggest is swapping out the HDD for a SSD.
If plugging it is so difficult look for external battery systems. While hard to find now for this series as the market has moved on you might find one online. When I was supporting a sizable engineering firm we had I think 30 of them. We even had UPSs for the site buildings to smooth out the generator power and offer a bit of extra time when the gas generator ran out of gas.
But just like the early Prius owners, maybe it’s time to jump to a newer system which out of the gate offers twice the run time without having to go into the extreme Power economization you are trying here.
You remind me on what early Prius owners would do! It was madding being behind one we would collectively crawled across the intersection as they wanted to build speed up slowly and they often didn’t get to the stop line instead coasting to the stop sign. On the street or highway we would often have to slow down to the posted speed no matter the traffic. Trying to maximize there distance.
Apples SMC logic is designed to protect your system it’s not really designed to run in CPU at this lower clocking.
OK, how to maximize my run time? Your Mac has two GPUs! The engine within the CPU and the AMD discrete GPU. I would disable using the AMD when power is at a premium. Reducing/removing add-ons apps running also helps. But, the biggest is swapping out the HDD for a SSD.
If plugging it is so difficult look for external battery systems. While hard to find now for this series as the market has moved on you might find one online. When I was supporting a sizable engineering firm we had I think 30 of them. We even had UPSs for the site buildings to smooth out the generator power and offer a bit of extra time when the gas generator ran out of gas.
But just like the early Prius owners, maybe it’s time to jump to a newer system which out of the gate offers twice the run time without having to go into the extreme Power economization you are trying here.