After splitting with Imagination Technologies, Apple is continuing its trend of bucking reliance on others in favour creating its own technology. Anonymous sources now state that the company plans to take power management chips into its own hands, eventually dropping Dialog Semiconductor as its supplier. The reports come from Nikkei …
Read More »Apple iOS 5.0.1. update improves battery life
Apple have had to deal with reports that their iPhone 4S has suffered from poor battery life. Kitguru reported on this before and it was apparently tied down to a bug in iOS. Apple said they would be working on a fix. Apple issued a statement to All Things D …
Read More »Apple to improve battery life with ‘jelly rolls’
Whether you like The Macbook range of computers or not, very few will argue that Apple have been at the forefront of pushing battery life in recent years. This is set to continue as they have a new concept for battery improvements with ‘jelly rolls' all contained within a single …
Read More »Apple graphic switching may be cause of battery life issues
Apple recently (finally) released new Arrandale based MacBook Pros with battery life of up to 9-10 hours. With this release they also announced their own automatic graphics switching technology which toggles between the onboard Intel integrated graphics paired with the i5 and i7 processors and a discrete graphics processor. This …
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