[P1] 10.2.8

Kim Gammelgaard kgani at mac.com
Sun Oct 19 05:27:24 PDT 2003


On 19/10/03 13:42, "Ruffin Bailey" <rufbo1 at comcast.net> wrote:

>>> I have a 500 mghz iBook dual USB. It's currently running 10.2.6.
>>> 1) Has Apple solved the early issues with 10.2.8?
>>  
>> Yes, although for iBooks the only issue was a power management problem
>> resulting in lower battery hold-up times. That's been fixed.
> 
> I've been getting shorter battery life with my 500 MHz 'book recently, after
> upgrading to 10.2.8, but I'm wondering if the battery itself is starting to
> give.  Anyhow, down from 4.5-5 hours for word processing with low brightness 6
> mths ago to about 2.5.  Not the happiest camper, but I had been using a
> different laptop for about 2 months there, so I'm not sure that 10.2.8 is the
> [only?] cause.
> 
> YMMV, etc.
> 
> Ruffin Bailey

Since I got the second 10.2.8 on my Graphite 466 SE my battery life has
increase by about half an hour from about 2 to 2,5 on a year and a half old
battery. I was impressed so to speak.

MMDV! 

Cheers,

Kim



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