iBook battery life

[Greg Hamilton]

Hi,

I have an iBook 500. I'm currently running OSX 10.2.4. I'm experiencing 
severely reduced battery life. A lot of people have been complaining of 
the same problem lately. eg. Have a look at this forum on Apple's own 
web site : 
http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?14@22.cZL1aAD3j0Z.0@.3bbf6b95

There's some suggestion that the problem is not just hardware. OSX may 
be over charging the battery or reporting incorrect battery charge. I'm 
curious to know if any iBook owners running YDL are experiencing these 
battery problems. I haven't heard a peep from folks still running OS9 
which tends to lend some credence to this notion that it's software 
related.

I suspect it may be time to junk OSX in favour of Linux.

Greg Hamilton