iBook battery life

[Nathan Weil]

I don't know if it's OS X, but I get even worse usage from YDL.  Linux just
sucks the juice like nothing else I've seen.  If you're only getting about
30 minutes to an hour, and you have a 500 MHz iBook, and you use it a lot,
maybe it's time for a new battery?  They don't last forever.

Just my 2 Cents,

Nathan

On 4/4/03 1:51, "Greg Hamilton" <gregh@object-craft.com.au> wrote:

>> 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.
> 
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