[Ti] New 15"s have HORRIBLE battery life (So does my 17")

[Chris Rock]

I had to flash the pram power settings, and my battery was new with 
life, also you need to follow what apple says about draining the battery 
and letting it FULL CHARGE ( not trickle, meaning do not use it while 
charging) for a good 8 hours, and the combination gives me pretty damn 
good battery life on my original 17" with screen brightness set to 4 
down from the top, and keyboard bright ness set to off, full 
performance, bluetooth off, airport on, I get about 3.5 hrs of decent use.


- Rock

Peter Krug wrote:

>> On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 11:56  AM, Peter Krug wrote:
>>
>>> Well I guess I haven't mentioned it here, but my LunchTrayDeluxe has 
>>> pretty crappy battery life, too.  I get no more than 3 hours (max) 
>>> and routinely get between 2 and 2.5 hours.  Throw in Airport and it 
>>> gets worse - AE drops the battery on the order of 1% every minute or 
>>> so.  And yes, I lower my screen brightness and set the Energy Saver 
>>> prefs to save juice.  I always chalked it up to the huge 17-inch 
>>> screen drawing so much power.
>>
>>
>> That's a shame!  I usually have no problems getting over 3 hours on 
>> my 17", with airport on. screen fairly dimmed and performance down. 
>> Using just a few apps (just typing or chatting or something) I can 
>> get about 4.
>>
>
> Here's a specific - I woke up this morning, my sleeping PB woke up 
> with 93% charge.  I've been on airport reading mail and hitting the 
> occasional website for the last 1 hour and 15 minutes.  I'm down to 
> 48% charge.  I'm in the dark, so my screen brightness is way down (but 
> the keyboard brightness is on, 4 dots up).  In this case, it's about 
> 1.5 minutes per percent charge (75 minutes/45% drop).  In the time it 
> took me to write this, my battery is down to 45% charge and my online 
> time is 80 minutes.  Maybe I've got a flakey battery?  Or is this normal?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter