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> or at least enough battery life that I can have Chrome running and still be able to code all day long

Shouldn't that be an action for Google rather than Apple? Of late, I've found Google's applications to be big battery hogs - Chrome and Google Drive for example (on OS X)

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Honestly, if it wasn't Chrome, it would be any of a number of other applications finding their way into our daily milieu. One of a dozen Electron based "desktop" apps. Firefox. Eclipse. I can even spin up the processor with VIM, if YCM or Anaconda addons have to do a lot of work.

As developers, we use CPU for work, and we use it hard. A battery in a "pro" laptop should support that need.

Firefox is nowhere near as big an offender as chrome. Chromes absolute disregard for me frankly offends me.

Also, programs like IntelliJ do have low power mode, which does help significantly in my experience.

I won't argue that point - Chrome is a huge offender - but compared to Safari, they both leave a lot to be desired on the energy consumption front.

Are there any knobs or dials (for any OS) for controlling how much battery (amps) an app (or task) is allowed to use? That'd be more directly useful to me than controlling CPU % utilization and so forth.

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