[PB] Battery endurance (was: Test)

[Jean-Paul Thuot]

I take mine to school with me, and generally use it on and off the
plug while there, depending on where I am.  It's always plugged in at
home unless I'm sitting in the living room with my wife as we tap away
side by side (she's got an iBook).

So yeah, about 50/50 I'd say.

Jean-Paul

On 6/30/05, Matt Gregory <vdub.grego at gmail.com> wrote:
> To go off on a slight tangent ... what is the consensus on battery usage
> habits?  I tend to plug mine in if it's convenient (i.e. i'm at the desk and
> the plug is right there anyway).  It's a 15" 1.67Ghz.  I rarely use it for
> the time it takes to run the battery down fully, although I did that when it
> was new for the battery calibration.  If I was forced to make a guess, I'd
> say it's pretty close to 50/50 battery/plugged-in.  This is pretty much the
> behavior I've used with all my Li-ion rechargeable devices and haven't had
> any problems other than with my POS HP laptop, which was what the PB
> replaced.
>  
>  matt.
> 
> 
> On 6/30/05, Richard McKay <richard.mckay1 at virgin.net> wrote:
> > On 30/6/05 00:09, "Jean-Paul Thuot" <fearsome.orange at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I bought my PB second hand from a friend.  It is about 1.5 years old
> > > now (I think, any way for me to tell exactly?).  The battery gets 
> > > about 2 hours from a full charge.  I think he used his battery fairly
> > > extensively, and I can see that getting a new battery in the future is
> > > a likelihood for me.
> > >
> > > Which PBs have keyboards that light up?  I've never seen mine light 
> > > up, so I'm assuming it's not this one.  It's a FireWire 800 1Ghz Al.
> > 
> > The first one was the 17" PB introduced Jan. 2003 and since then all 17"
> > models have it and increasingly the 15" models (at first only higher spec 
> > 15's and now only the 12" models are not illuminated...yet).
> > 
> > You can check yours by looking at the keys for F8-F10 as these show the
> > icons for either turning it off F8, reducing it F9, or increasing the 
> > brightness F10, as well as the options available under Keyboard & Mouse in
> > Sys Prefs. (at least in Tiger).
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Richard
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