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From: Steven Fisher on 13 Feb 2010 22:16
On 2010-02-13 18:45:32 -0800, John said:

> In Tiger on my iBook I was able to select the battery icon and choose 3
> Power save modes (Normal, better performance, etc.). This feature seems
> to be missing in Snow Leopard and the energy saver control panel does
> not give me the ability to bring it back. Is this normal?

Yes, it's normal. You don't need to manage the tradeoffs that required
it anymore. The CPU slows up and speeds down as needed, for instance.
The MacBook switches between specific battery and power adapter setting
sets, but there's little in there you'd ever want to tune based on your
expected usage.

From: Steven Fisher on 13 Feb 2010 22:30
On 2010-02-13 19:23:42 -0800, John said:

> Thanks. Still getting used to the new keyboard :) Say what did they do
> with the Num Lock key?

It's gone. The explanation is that it was used by accident (and
confused users) more often than it was ever used on purpose. Something
that's true for me personally at least.

From: Steven Fisher on 13 Feb 2010 23:30
In article <jwolf6589-F1FB98.23200313022010(a)nntp.charter.net>,
John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> Well its not like most office and corporations use Macs anyways. So my
> guess would be that people in those industries dont use a Mac and so
> this feature wont hurt them.

It's easily worked around with an external USB keypad anyway.


Steve
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