[PB] Battery endurance (was: Test)

[Jean-Paul Thuot]

I bought my PB second hand from a friend.  It is about 1.5 years old
now (I think, any way for me to tell exactly?).  The battery gets
about 2 hours from a full charge.  I think he used his battery fairly
extensively, and I can see that getting a new battery in the future is
a likelihood for me.

Which PBs have keyboards that light up?  I've never seen mine light
up, so I'm assuming it's not this one.  It's a FireWire 800 1Ghz Al.

Jean-Paul

> As I mentioned in another post, this is my first pb and I haven't had
> any other experience with pb's to go on. This fact lead to a pleasant
> surprise when my keyboard lit up the first time. I thought I had
> pressed a button by accident and tried a million ways to make it light
> up again (it went out immediately after).  After a brief period of
> panic I consulted my user manual and was enlightened - no pun intended
> - the keyboard lights up in low light conditions! How convenient :)
> While flipping through the manual I found the page on battery
> calibration which told me to use the pb until the battery ran out and
> the book went to sleep, then charge the battery to full.