[P1] battery time under X
Mike Urseth
mike at signhelpers.com
Fri Aug 22 13:18:01 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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