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Google Drive for Mac is finally usable.

The latest version; 1.2.3101.4994, is pulling 0.1% CPU running and paused. Finally. 

GDrive sucking 2 - 4% CPU on Macs while idling!

So while I was getting all giddy planning how I was going to solve all my sync / backup problems using GDrive’s affordable storage I forgot to check one thing… resource usage. Sure enough, my fears were confirmed, GDrive sucks CPU with reckless abandon.

Let’s compare Dropbox and GDrive in a different way from all those charts you’ve been seeing this week:

On my Mac GDrive is idling at a pretty constant 2.2% while dropbox is essentially sitting a 0.0 with an occasional bounce to 0.2%. Now for the real kicker - the CPU use stays the same even when GDrive is paused!!
Of course the CPU use will vary depending on your Mac. I did a quick sample of my Mac toting friends and saw as high as 4% on a brand new 11” Macbook Air. That’s going to put a dent in your battery life.
I did a quick check on my Windows machine and GDrive doesn’t have the same problem there. So I can only conclude that Google put their B Team on the Mac version. Sad. Very sad. Until they get this fixed, I guess I’ll be hanging on to my storage money.