[Ti] Battery life in 10.3.3

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

At 17:18 -0700 23/3/04, Sam Hotchkiss wrote:
>I've found the 10.3 has cut my battery life IN HALF!  anyone else experience
>this?

Sam - I had previously complained about battery life on my 15" 
Al-book compared to the Ti-book.

Things did get better (see m my post from December, appended)
but now I am back down to about 1h 10 min on a full charge, running 10.3.3.

If I quit Folding at Home, which keeps the CPU at 100%, I get an extra 20 min.

Whatever the root cause, just 1 hour or so of battery life is really 
not acceptable for a laptop.

regards,  Trevor


Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:49:05 +0300
From: "Dr. Trevor J. Hutley" <hutley at geneva-link.ch>
Subject: [Ti] Battery Update 1.1


Whereas previosly I was bemoaning the poor battery live on my 15.2" 
FW800, I noticed that after:

1.  turning BlueTooth off

2.  draining the battery completely and fully recharging it

3.  installing Battery Update 1.1,

my battery life has increased significantly.

I get the impression that it was the Battery Update that made the 
largest difference.

It now shows at least 2h on full charge.  Right now it is showing 2 h 
35 (full screen brighness).
The most it has shown is 3h.

So somewhere between 50% and 100% more than last week.		:-)

Not as good as the Ti-500 was, but now "acceptable" I think.

regards,  Trevor