Battery life for 1yr old iBook

[B.J. Major]

>My machines run 9.2.2 (Tangerine) and 9.1 (Graphite). I played with 10 
>on the graphite but ultimately decided that I'm not happy with OS X at 
>800x600. Both machines are used for extremely light duty (email, web 
>surf, word processing and simple games like Yahtzee).

These are YOUR machines and yet you've preached to myself and others on 
this list that there is "absolutely nothing wrong with all the Macs 
you've seen running OS X"???!!  If you do not use OS X *yourself* on your 
own iBooks, you certainly should have nothing to do with telling someone 
that their kernel panic is a "silly" problem.  Do as I say and not as I 
do, is that your motto??

Also, web browsing is not "light duty" per se.  Browsers tend to get 
bigger and more bloated with each increasing version and they are very 
taxing on an operating system (ANY operating system).

For what it's worth to the original poster of this thread, my dual USB 
iBook does very well on its battery, but I do not use Airport.  The 
batteries, now 11 months old each (I have 2), average at least 4.50 hours 
each on a full charge.

--bj
http://www.bjbear71.com/