iBook battery life

[Seth Dimbert]

On 4/4/03 12:03 AM, "Greg Hamilton" <gregh@object-craft.com.au> wrote:

> 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.

What are you, kidding?

It's true that X.2.3 has well-documented battery-problems. Not just on
iBooks, either, but on PowerBooks, too. So your solution is to stop using
the OS?

Ask yourself this: How many discussion threads on this list in the last
month have *not* been about problems making hardware work in YDL 2.3 or 3.0?

Seriously now: Apple has a problem. They've already worked out a
battery-conditioning solution and published it on their website. Reports of
success with it are legion. I am sure it will be worked out in the next
incremental update or in Panther. But, for goodness' sake, scrapping the OS
is not the answer. It's not even related to the answer.

There are lots and lots and lots of things that Linux does better than OSX
(or OS9, or any MS OS, or any other closed-source OS). But flawless hardware
support is NOT on that list.

Let's be serious in our evangelism.


-SD