No Two Drop Down Tab settings in the Energy Saver

I have heard a lot about how you can maximize your battery life by going to the energy saver and choose from the drop down tabs (settings for and optimization tabs)....I didn't have these two tabs on my mac at all....is it because of the new 10.5.5 or something is wrong with my OS?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2490?viewlocale=en_US#l5

 

yeah, ***? i dont see that either

 

It's not 10.5.5 because I have it installed and I can access it.

Maybe the customized version of 10.5.5 thats on the newer laptops doesn't have it? Although I kinda wouldn't that that's the case, its a bit strange. Maybe check all the tabs in system preferences.

Also it seems that the two of you have the newer laptops, maybe someone else with a new one can comment?

 

Yeah, it's a problem on all the new laptops. sulkorp, do you mind posting what you get from "pmset -g" on terminal?

Thanks

 

Yea no problem. Mine is a custom setup, but yea.

Code:

Active Profiles:
Battery Power		0
AC Power		-1*
Currently in use:
 sleep		0
 sms		1
 acwake		0
 displaysleep	2
 autorestart	1
 hibernatefile	/var/vm/sleepimage
 hibernatemode	3
 womp		1
 halfdim	1
 disksleep	10
 lidwake	1
 ttyskeepawake	1

 

This is getting annoying. It doesn't seem to support the CPU reduce option, so all I could change are these values to improve battery life:

Code:

Capabilities for Battery Power:
 displaysleep
 disksleep
 sleep
 acwake
 lidwake
 lessbright
 halfdim
 sms

I think the easiest way to gain the "Better Battery Life" profile is to just set it via the terminal:
pmset -a 1

since according to the man page:

Code:

SETTINGS PROFILES
     Mac OS X stores sets of pre-defined Energy Saver settings in a few num-
     bered profiles (1, 2, 3).  All user-modified settings are stored in the
     custom profile (-1).  The two numbered profiles 0 and 4 are unused.

     Profiles are set per-power source. Default profile selections are
     (AC=2, Batt=1, UPS=1). See Examples for ways to set profiles.

     Any modifications made to Energy Saver settings via Energy Saver or pmset
     will automatically switch your active profile to Custom if it was not
     already Custom. OS X tracks the selected profiles and the settings for
     the Custom profile in com.apple.PowerManagement.plist discussed in Files
     below.

     1 corresponds to Energy Saver Optimization for "Better Energy Savings"
     2 corresponds to Energy Saver Optimization for "Normal"
     3 corresponds to Energy Saver Optimization for "Better Performance"
     -1 corresponds to Energy Saver Optimization for "Custom"

 

Yea that would really be annoying..
Well you can write a script or something that will launch that terminal command when you double click on it.

Hopefully apple will fix it though in 10.5.6. Or an update for the new laptops.

 

Active Profiles:
Battery Power 1*
AC Power 1
Currently in use:
sleep 10
sms 1
acwake 0
displaysleep 2
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
hibernatemode 3
halfdim 1
lidwake 1
ttyskeepawake 1
disksleep 10

This is mine

I did:
pmset -b 1 (battery)
pmset -c 1 (charger)
pmset -u 1 (ups)

nothing appeared....not sure this would work.