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I particularly like OSX so I have bought some macs, even knowing Apple is lame this way. A year or two later and they couldn't use any of the latest software, which all required the new OS, which their computer couldn't use.

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They used it for a couple years and then Apple upgraded the OS in such a way that their mac could not use the new OS.

I remember once about 20-25 years ago my sister had purchased one of the early macs. Apple hasn't cared about backwards compatibility in general, for decades. Those are your three available fixes (that don't involve changing to a newer computer): Switch VP9 60fps to H264 30fps, and avoid super high-res videos, and try rebooting Sierra. I've also noticed another Sierra issue new since 10.12.2: Sometimes the OS gets sluggish due to low graphics card RAM (very noticeable when watching videos) and a reboot fixes it.

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It can be fixed by swapping the resolution menu for those videos to 1080p or 720p. And certain videos are still a bit stuttery (but it's rare). For example, 4K video cannot be decoded by a MacBook Pro 2010.

Still having stutter means there's most likely too much bitrate for your graphics card to decode on certain videos. That codec change fixes the two main causes of stutter (VP9 and 60 FPS videos). Which allows the video decoding to be hardware-accelerated even on MacBook Pro 2010s. If Stats for Nerds shows a H264 codec in Google Chrome, then you've successfully changed from VP9 to 30fps H264. Note: Use 'avc1.77.30' for compatibility with iOS versions 3.0 to 3.12. Note: Use 'avc1.66.30' for compatibility with iOS versions 3.0 to 3.1.2.

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VMware Fusion 5.0.1 with 2 VMs – Windows XP Pro and Backtrack 5 R3 (both were idle during this setup).H.264 Baseline Profile level 3.0: 'avc1.42001e' or 'avc1.66.30'.

OS X 10.8.2 on a Macbook Pro 8.2 (A1286, Quad Core i7 2.3 Ghz, 16gb RAM, 256gb OCZ Vertex 3, AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1GB).

So it may not be working as expected, but for now it seems it is.

This is something that I discovered today.

What I have to do is to stop VMware completely (Cmd + Q), go to Integrated only again and restart all the VMs.

My consumption 2.5 Amp, instead of 1.1 Amp.

So instead of having 3:27 hours left, I now have 1:22 hours left.

Now, let’s check what the consumption is (the same two idle VMs):.

How do I know that I’m saving power? Well, let’s go to Discrete and check the power consumption:.

Cody Krieger (the creator of gfxCardStatus) says that even if it says that the Integrated is being used, the Discrete (NVidia) is still being powered on, which invalidates the whole exercise.

Here’s my power consumption with the two VMs:

I’m using iStatMenus (not free) to check my power consumption.

There’s a BackTrack 5 R3 VM and a Windows XP (both idle) with the integrated graphics card:.

There’s a BackTrack 5 R3 with the integrated graphics card:

Then launch VMWare Fusion, start whatever virtual machine.

Before launching VMware Fusion, click on Integrated only ( THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT STEP: click it several times until it has the checkbox on the Integrated only.):.

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How to use Integrated Graphics Card with VMware Fusion on OS X 10.8: But I managed (thanks to PePe) to discover one. I have not found any solution online to fix this. When one uses VMWare Fusion, the discrete graphics card is enforced, which drains the battery too fast. With OS X 10.8 gfxCardStatus is no longer capable of enforcing Integrated Graphics card only.