Power Saving Options on MacBook Pro 13"

hey guys,
as above. it seems like power options (eg. high performance, maximum battery, .etc) are not present on my macbook. is there anything wrong? what should i do get to get them back? i dont intend to have my notebook running at full speed evertime im using... id rather have longer battery life.
thanks

On the unibody MBPs with dual graphics cards, those options are the way one switches between the graphics cards. Since your MBP only has one graphics card, it seems logical for those options to be absent.
On my (older) MBP, those options are available in System Preferences > Energy Saver > Optimization pop-up menu, or by clicking on the battery icon in the menu bar - but, all they do is set 'default' times for display and system sleep (e.g. for the Power Adapter, setting to Better Performance sets system sleep to never and display sleep to 20 minutes, whereas Normal sets both sleeps to 10 minutes, etc.). So, 'Performance' has nothing to do with the CPU/GPU in that context.

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