Energy Saver Options

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Message was edited by: danno2022

I also am wondering about this. I know this issue arose with an earlier update and people complained and they put it back on the next update. But now it is gone again, I prefer to have this feature back. Any info would be great. thanks.

The Energy Profiles are really gone from the Battery Menubar item and the preferences! Something like this happened in 10.5.6 IIRC and was fixed again in 10.5.7. The Menubar item was also the only way for "Standard" (restricted) users to change the Energy Settings.

Instead of taking all the profiles away, they should offer MORE (custom and maybe user-renameable) profiles...

Thank you Apple, you killed one of the most useful features of Mac OS X.
And I think many people want it back. Without this, Snow Leopard is IMO much less useful for mobile computers. For me, UNUSABLE.

yes its gone again... i want it back... please bring back the options from the menu!

I find it much much quicker for me to save a custom power mode and then just pick it from the list when i need it... rather than go into the energy pref pane and faf about!

Not again! This happened on (10.5.6) I think and then was fixed in 10.5.7. The Energy Saver Prefs panel doesn't even have the profiles anymore! This is serious problem for notebook users. How can it creep back into 10.6.1? I pray to the code gods that this is fixed again in the next update to Snow Leopard.

It seems that the Sleep menu command either puts the computer into a sleep mode or hibernate mode depending upon whether the Mac is plugged in to an electrical outlet. At least, that is my observation using my MacBook Pro, which is the last model issued before the unibody models.

It's a tolerable work-around while waiting for the power profiles that existed in Leopard to be restored.

Just adding a 'me too' to this one. There are at least three other threads with the same complaint:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10100084&#10100084
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10101571&#10101571
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10091692&#10091692
It was particularly useful when giving presentations or downloading a file to be able to quickly and easily select a 'custom' option that did not allow the computer to sleep. Now the only way is to go through the full system prefs menu (which requires a password if you have followed the general advice not to work in an admin. account).
I'm surprised that it was not rectified in the recent 10.6.1 upgrade. Could it have something to do with increased security in Snow Leopard?
James

Add me to the list of people not happy with the sleep/hibernate situation in 10.6.1.

I also seem to be getting worse battery life with my relatively new replacement battery...Apple fix this!!!

I'm new to mac however I had seen that optimization choices in another macbook pro using leopard.

now there is no option like that and I can't get even closer to the 7 hours without wireless and so many things closed and minimum brightness.I hope that will come back soon. I am not close to hapy with this.

Is there any word the upcoming 10.6.2 will fix this issue?

Well, I installed 10.6.2 and still no energy profiles! I thought 10.6.2 was going to fix this???

Add me to the list of 10.6.2'ers that would REALLY like to see Energy Saver options / profiles come back.

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If you want to report this issue to Apple's engineering, send a bug report or an enhancement request via its Bug Reporter system. To do this, join the Apple Developer Connection ( ADC)—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report or enhancement request. The nice thing with this procedure is that you get a response and a follow-up number; thus, starting a dialog with engineering.

There's no benefit complaining here, since these are user-to-user forums and most likely anyone from Apple who visits here won't respond to your pleas. Do it the right way.