On: The 12” MacBook Air: Back to Basics?

[rmckayfleming]

When you click the battery dropdown on the top right, Chrome is consistently listed as an "Apps Using Significant Energy". On previous releases of OS X I also noticed that by default it would use my dedicated GPU at all times, whereas Safari would not (not sure if this is still true).

[STRML → rmckayfleming]

This is no longer true, but it still does request the dGPU on certain pages, such as the Chrome Web Store.

What's especially obnoxious about that behavior is that if you disable the dGPU, it works just fine. So what's the point?

Also, one would expect Chrome's own Web Store to work well in Chrome... but Google's attitude toward long-standing bugs is anything but exemplary.