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I was just wondering, since the MacBook Pro is a quad-core computer, if anyone knows a way to basically sleep 2 of the 4 cores to get better battery life, or even if this would help with battery life, since quad-cores seem to be pretty power hungry. I still need the quad-core power occasionally, but not while I am in school or taking notes throughout the day. Thanks
Good Question! Sorry to say Intel’s chips don’t currently allow one to shut down a given core or two. A different kind of processor will soon be out called a big-LITTLE In this design a less powerful core runs all of the time but the bigger more powerful cores go to deep sleep mode until the little core tells them to wake. Here’s a good writeup ARM big-LITTLE Processing. Currently its slated for smartphones. But others are also working on similar architectures for desktop & server CPU designs. Even still you won’t be able to control it the OS & the Apps will do the work for you.
