Spotlight's Impact on PowerBook Battery Life?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday August 17, 2005 @01:40PM from the hits-the-juice-pretty-hard dept.

Viltvodlian Deoderan asks: "So, Spotlight for Mac OS X Tiger is very cool. I can now let my innate ability to disorganize things shine through. However, when using my PowerBook unplugged, it seems that my battery lasts a noticeably less time. A close reading of Ars Technica's description of how spotlight works suggests that this is due to keeping the index file up-to-date on disk. Has anyone else noticed the same thing? Does someone have a better explanation for why my battery seems to drain out, prematurely? Is there some way real-time indexing can be turned off to conserve power?"

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Umm.. by imstanny · 2005-08-17 13:47 · Score: 5, Funny

Try turning off the pr0n. you're welcome.
Re:Kill unused processes by Anonymous Coward · 2005-08-17 14:15 · Score: 2, Funny

The same trick works with people!
Ow my battery by imsoclever · 2005-08-18 07:35 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah powering a spotlight with my PowerBook really drains the battery.