[P1] battery time under X

Mike Urseth mike at signhelpers.com
Fri Aug 22 13:13:18 PDT 2003


Any ideas why X could do actual damage?

I can see smoke.....

>
>While some people have experienced actual physical problems with 
>portable batteries under OS X, for the most part the decrease in 
>battery life is due to two things: OS X has a Virtual Memory scheme 
>that increases hard disc activity (you can offset this by installing 
>as much RAM as possible), and at present it lacks the power 
>management features kept battery life long under OS 9. (That may 
>change in a future version.)
>
>So what you're seeing is probably par for the course.

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