Two best explanations:
1. Screen brightness can be dimmed in full screen mode without a perceivable difference.
2. App nap. It's a macOS feature that dials down the power consumption of apps when their windows aren't visible.
1. Screen brightness can be dimmed in full screen mode without a perceivable difference.
2. App nap. It's a macOS feature that dials down the power consumption of apps when their windows aren't visible.
Mac OS X reached an astounding level of technical goodness in Snow Leopard. Downhill since then. When my Macbook died I bought a refurbished, shitty Chromebook. Living off Azure Notebooks for any kind of computing...
(Now if only Apple would sell a Macbook or iMac with 512 SSD & 16 GB RAM for a reasonable price)
Edit: 3 releases actually. (Mavericks)
Memory compression is just awesome.
(I might be misremembering everything.)