How to fix Mac OSX mountain lion battery life with 3 simple terminal commands!
Hello, the other day i bought a macbook pro retina display, and it came pre loaded with mountain lion. I immediately started doing a test on a 3d game, and saw how short the battery life was. I was extremely disapointed by this, and needed a solution. I finally found it. This works on any mac (laptop or desktop) running mac OSX 10.8+ (any version of mountain lion). Make sure to save a copy of your wallpaper because this will reset your wallpaper to default. This will not remove any of your files/folders, except for your desktop wallpaper.
Open up Terminal on your Mac and type “ cd ~/Library/Preferences/” (without the quote marks) and hit return.
Now enter “rm com.apple.desktop.plist” and hit enter again.
Finally, enter “killall Dock”
This should add a good few hours extra to your battery life. Enjoy!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), Works with any mac with OSX 10.8+