iBook battery life

[Greg Hamilton]

> Then the only exception I take is your use of the word "rampant." It's
> simply not fair to say that OSX is causing "rampant battery failure." 
> It's
> not even fair to use the word "failure" since what we're really talking
> about are batteries that - though they last less time than they should 
> -
> still outperform batteries in most comparable Windows systems.

If you have a look at the Apple forum I quoted in my original message I 
think you'll find a LOT of people complaining about this. There was 
also a Slashdot thread on this topic last week and again many posts 
from disgruntled Apple users. Hence my use of the word rampant, while 
still an exaggeration, is not completely unjustified.

Also, the only Windows system my laptop is outperforming at the moment 
is one with a dead battery. Out of the box I could get b/w 2 and 4 
hours use depending on what I was doing. Last week I was getting an 
hour. Today I can get about half an hour. Many of the complaints I've 
read suggest that this rapid deterioration will continue and that 
shortly I will not be able to use the machine without mains power.

Furthermore the onset of these symptoms is assumed by many to be 
related to the installation of the 10.2.4 upgrade. In the interests of 
verifying this I thought I'd ask people who are using the same hardware 
but a different OS.