![]() The author may be fixing it this autumn but he's just one guy with a life on the side, so this may be the end of BetterTouchTool. Uses the high-power GPU all the time and there's no workaround. Fixable by downloading v2.4.2i linked to on page 1 on this thread. gfxCardStatus: The official v2.3 uses the high-power GPU all the time. Seriously it's not funny, and I wish Apple would stop being such asses and just make Siri use the integrated graphics instead.ĭisabling Siri is easy: Turn it off in system preferences and remove the dock icon. Because as soon as you use Siri, your MacBook Pro switches to high-power graphics and it gets super hot, drains the battery and the fans keep spinning until you reboot the machine (to shutdown Siri). Siri: Everyone with a MacBook Pro 2010 with dual GPUs (like you and me) should disable Siri. I constantly use the "Picture in Picture" feature of Safari and the OS is rock solid for me. Apple goes the other way and installs a "culture of upgrade-itis". They may not run very well since MS is starting to increase the memory requirement a bit, but still they make sure that backwards compatibility is maintained. Microsoft goes to great pains to make sure that each new iteration of Windows will continue to run on many pieces of very legacy gear.including 10 and 15 year old computers. This is much more the case for Apple's OS X, then it is for MS windows. Eventually they say, sorry, this software only works with Sierra and newer.but the poor guy with MBP that has kernel panics on Sierra or his machine was deprecated by Apple to not run with Sierra, is now totally and completely SOL to use the software they are mostly interested in using. Software developers constantly complain about having to jump through hurdles every time a new version of OS X comes out and they are now forced to change some of their code to work on the newest OS X, sometimes in complicated ways in order to continue supporting older versions of OS X. Apple is so sloppy with their engineering that their frameworks are constantly deprecating old versions of OSX. So why must Apple constantly corner us into upgrading, and yes they do force. There is absolutely no technical reason whatsoever that consumers should be coerced into constantly upgrading their laptop or desktop computer. The existing computers that consumers have available to them are perfectly fine to do everything they want to do and much more without breaking a sweat. It may have been true in the 80's that everyone had to constantly upgrade their computers to keep up with the advances, but as I said earlier, that is simply not the case anymore. Even the new mac pro is only marginally faster then my 2010 Mac Pro, 6 years later. ![]() If you pay attention, iMac's haven't gotten much faster in quite a while. A user with simpler needs could easily use this computer just fine for email, surf the web, check Facebook, etc.which is what the fast majority of users do.Īlso, the rules of the 70's, 80's and 90's about computers needing to double in speed every year no longer applies because A) they are kind of reaching a hardware limit of what current chip technology can do and B) most consumers don't actually need a faster computer. I have a PC here from 16 years ago that still runs Windows7 quite fine, but I don't really use it because I have my also came from a time when CPU's were still going through a lot of growth spurts in the industry.so.it would be understandable to toss that one.but I didn't HAVE to. They did eventually start to have physical breakdown problems, like faulty ports and things like that, but they ran quite fine and handled my business personal work quite fine for a decade. I have had Windows Laptops I have used easily more than 10 years. I'd rather have new features, personally.Īnd also, my previous post wasn't meant to be confrontational, but I think you took it that way. People could run a comp for 10 years if the software that the comp originally came with never changes - no new features, no new graphic enhancements, nothing. It just doesn't run anything past OS X 10.7 Lion - for obvious reasons. To your point, my 2006 (ten years old!) iMac works well. I'd hardly say a 2010 MBP, a 2006 iMac, and a first gen iPad is "wasting my money on having the latest stuff". I have 2 "new" products, neither of which are Macs. If people bought computers once every 10 years, there wouldn't been much of a market, nor competition.Īnd don't worry, I'm not a juice drinker and, if you can read, I'm not a fanboy. ![]() Even if they *could*, companies would refresh so that people would have to upgrade. 10 years? That's a lofty goal for any tech company.
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