[P1] Accidental battery life development, continued

[Tom R. no spam]

That's among how my 700 MHz 16VRAM was behaving when the battery
went bad (as many batteries of that vintage went bad).  Apparently
it was used by Apple as one indicator of a battery needing to be
replaced.

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Michael Adams wrote:
 . . .
> Weird... one thing to note though: when waking, an iBook will often draw
> quite a large current, which then lowers down again, but the battery
> meter will sometimes get confused and report quite a low time-remining
> reading.. It happened a few times to me when running 10.2.3 (IIRC) and I
> got figures like 10mins when waking from sleep... it would then settle
> back down again to the couple of hours that I actually had remaining.
 . . .