Time remaining on Mountain Lion battery

I feel they should allow us to choose what we want to see.

Personally I would like to see the batter percentage as well as the time remaining simultaneously.

This is seriously not rocket science.

I use the time indicator to estimate how long i can continue doign what ever it is I am busy with and if needed dim my display to get the battery to last that little bit longer.

I use the percentage as a bit more of a "true" indicator of how flat the battery is, if it says 30min remaining but says 4% then I can safely guess it's because it was taking a snooze, while I was talking on the phone or something.

Apple should strive to reduce the number of clicks and not increase them.

Intuitive interfaces is one of the things I love about apple.

Apple what happended to our choice to display which we feel is best for us. Since percentage means nothing as the application usage changes. Right now 45% is 54minutes. now it 44% and 56 minutes. Which one is more meaningful.

With each passing day, I find more annoying changes.

Now its 43% and 49min Only 2 minutes have passed.

My battery used to last 8hrs

Apple who is running the show. I should not have to use 3rd party tweaks to fix what was never broken in snow leopard.

41% and 52 minutes remaining,

I am going back to SL.

Give back the time remaining option,

allow me to modify my gestures- who wants to use a 4 finger pinch or spread to show the desktop. bring back Snowleopards 4 finger up and down.

allow me to disable full screen apps

allow me to choose to not use safari's single address search bar

This is a computer not a ios touch device, stop thinking otherwise.

Apple these are not improvements, KEEP UP THE good WORK. Wait never mind stop making things worse.

27% and 20 minutes remaining. How in the world is this supposed to help anyone. I now need to keep checking that fricking battery. Apple this is pathetic!!

My laptop battery used to last two hours, now it lasts 100% =)

Really Apple? My PC friends use to look at my MacBook Air with envy when the battery indicator showed 7 hrs. BRING IT BACK and send the employees who decided to omit it to Microsoft.

Bring it back Apple!!! Why do companies do stupid stuff like this?

lol it's called group theory / conformity. when a group of engineers sit down and discuss what changes they want. People tend to conform to someone with the more speaking power. And if that person has some stupid idea like this then this happens. It seems apple is trying to make mac more like an idevice: the launch pad, the app store, the game center, and this battery percentage. Because so is all the other major competitors: windows 8 is basically a tablet os if you never go back to the desktop screen. So yea, things like this happens all the time, that's why we need to provide feedback.

jaimz wrote:

...send the employees who decided to omit it to Microsoft.

I have a feeling that's where they came from. 😮

I didn't see this issue come up during the beta testing; I've always had it set to % anyway and used the menu to check the time.

However, just a reminder: posting here means nothing to Apple. You must make your feelings known here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

On my newest and oldest Dell notebooks, new Win 7, old XP, both percentage and time remaining are always shown. But you have to put the cursor over the battery icon.

I agree too. removing the battery time was a rookie error

I've been thinking the same thing. I can see why Apple would change the remaining battery time to a "simpler" percentage as a default as they strive towards making every device an "iDevice", but why remove the option? Leaving it as a user configrable appeases both the new "dumb" apple customer (as seen on their horrible new ads) AND the older, savvier customer. Small details like this are what used to set apple apart; now they seem to be whats slowly bringing them down.

Yes Apple! Change working stuff all over again. Remove perfectly fine working apps like iChat to a huge space consuming window and take off more and more options. Like back then when I was 5 years old and my mother decided what was best for me. Right now I am not allowed to see how much time I have left until my MacBook shuts down.

Keep doing all that stuff and see me using a Windows-PC in a couple of months again. Mac used to be great for me, but it annyos me more and more since the last couple of updates.

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yup definetly need it!

+1 I need it back...