If any of you can help me interpret my Etrecheck results and maybe see if you can help find what the culprit is which causes my Protools DAW to crash from low CPU power. I will be forever grateful.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.14
That computer is a battery-CAPABLE device. It is not optimized as a battery-operated device.
Your computer performs best when connected to AC power. It can use the full output of the Power Adapter AND when doing especially challenging work will also freely "borrow" power from the battery. In some cases, even with the power adapter connected, the charged state may even decline during stressful work.
When used only on battery, your computer has no extra cushion of power, and will perform more slowly. However, for ordinary non-stressful tasks this may not be objectionable (possibly not even noticeable.)
In general, you should ALWAYS connect AC power when it is possible to do so, and only run on batteries (which will be somewhat slower) when no AC sources are at hand. There are three micro-controllers cooperating on battery and charging issues, and your Mac will NEVER over-charge.
That computer is a battery-CAPABLE device. It is not optimized as a battery-operated device.
Your computer performs best when connected to AC power. It can use the full output of the Power Adapter AND when doing especially challenging work will also freely "borrow" power from the battery. In some cases, even with the power adapter connected, the charged state may even decline during stressful work.
When used only on battery, your computer has no extra cushion of power, and will perform more slowly. However, for ordinary non-stressful tasks this may not be objectionable (possibly not even noticeable.)
In general, you should ALWAYS connect AC power when it is possible to do so, and only run on batteries (which will be somewhat slower) when no AC sources are at hand. There are three micro-controllers cooperating on battery and charging issues, and your Mac will NEVER over-charge.
So i deleted Norton Utilities and Avast, so it should only be Drop Box and Virtual Box. Also, this battery was new when i bought and installed it about 1 and 1/2 years ago. Shouldn't they last longer? Its no apple battery tho
If you launch it and leave it running, DropBox scans you files incessantly.
DropBox is Not a native Mac Application. It was ported to the Mac from that other Operating System. Because it was ported, not converted, it ignores built-in MacOS features such as the File System Event Store, a list of recent (last few days) changed folders.
DropBox Searches ALL your files, looking for anything that might have changed. And it also does the same thing on your "stuff" already on the cloud. This burm=ns through computer resources for, in most cases, no advantage. you could launch it when you needed to update something, and quit it when down, saving lot of computer power and a boatload of I/O.
I had no idea it was running all the time. THis concerns me very much. How would I check to see and stop it from doing so? When i pull up the task manager it doesn't say its one of the operating tasks (task manager that gives the force quit option i mean). Thank you for your answer btw.
Problems include:
AVAST
Norton Utilities
DropBox
VirtualBox
possibly: trying to run on battery alone, without power adapter, when your battery is less than excellent.
so what Is Virtual Box doing running all the time? could you launch it only when needed?
Using VirtualBox is like have the equivalent of a whole 'nother computer running inside your computer.
Oh my gawd, thank you. I never knew this and was told to let the battery drain after a full charge as much as possible. I will only use it with its charger from now on. Thank you so much
I will do this from now on. Thank you so much. all this info is enlightening
Serious CPU slowdown problem which crashes Protools
