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How To Save Energy With Your Mac
Mar 13, 2025
In this video, I'll show you some energy saving tips for your Mac.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can actually save some money
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with your Mac now you may think that you
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know when you've got your computer and
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it's always running that you're going to
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be T eating up a lot of energy um but
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you can actually set up your Mac right
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so that it doesn't take as much energy
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as you know it does when you first get
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it so a couple things that you know seem
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might seem pretty obvious uh that you
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might just be
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overlooking is when you're not using
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your Mac you know just go up to the
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Apple menu and click on sleep you know I
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mean it's just as it's as simple as that
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just little things like that are going
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to save you a lot of energy over time
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you know I'm guessing a lot of people
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just don't put their Max to sleep and
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you're saving or you're taking up a lot
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of electricity when it's just sitting
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there so to further save energy you're
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going to go into system preferences so
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that's also found in the Apple menu and
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then under system preferences
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so when you're in when you're in system
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preferences just go under the energy
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saving tab under the hardware
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category and here you're going to see
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some options now you can set how long
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your computer goes to sleep after so I
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have it set to 3 hours now you can set
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it down to all the way to 1 minute so if
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you walk away after a minute your
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computer's going to be sleeping now
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that's going to save a lot of energy um
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probably you probably don't want that
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unless you you're like concerned about
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security uh and you want your computer
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to you know kind of lock itself after a
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minute um and you can also change the
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display sleep time all the way up to
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never um and never letting your display
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go to sleep made it shorten its life it
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warns you right there so I usually set
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mine around between 5 and 15 minutes uh
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just because it saves quite a bit of
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battery or not battery but a power that
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way and then putting the hard dis to
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sleep when possible not only saves your
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hard dis and they'll you know have a
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longer lifetime but it also saves energy
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because that disc isn't having to spin
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in there constantly and then you can
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have your screen automatically redu
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brightness before it goes to sleep so
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right there you're going to save a
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little bit of power you know not a lot
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but it's enough that it makes a little
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bit of a difference and you can click on
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schedule right here and you're going to
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get some more options to start up or a
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wake your computer or put it to sleep or
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something like that um restart shut down
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every day or weekend or any day of the
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week here at certain times so if you
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want your computer to just shut down at
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a certain time every day um you know in
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case you leave and you forget to shut it
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down and you have the schedule set up
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you'll know it'll shut down at that
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certain time every day and you know
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you're not going to be wasting energy
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let's say you're gone for like a weekend
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and you forget to shut your computer
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down well if you have that set up you
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know it'll shut down and you won't be
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taking power all weekend so that's
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pretty nice now I don't have a MacBook
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to show you with it here but on uh
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laptops you do get some more settings uh
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with the battery and things like that
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and you can tweak the battery to save
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even more power than it normally would
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to you know squeeze a little more
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battery life out of your Macbook so
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those are some pretty handy tips and uh
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I don't know how many people know about
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these I'm guessing a lot of people
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Overlook them when they buy their Mac
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because they just leave everything
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default and it's easy to just forget
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that those settings are there so those
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are some quick tips on how to save
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energy with your Mac and you know maybe
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draw a little bit less and maybe you
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don't have to pay as much at the end of
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the month for your power bill so I hope
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you found this video useful and thank
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you for
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watching
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