[PB] Battery endurance (was: Test)

[Matt Gregory]

To go off on a slight tangent ... what is the consensus on battery usage 
habits? I tend to plug mine in if it's convenient (i.e. i'm at the desk and 
the plug is right there anyway). It's a 15" 1.67Ghz. I rarely use it for the 
time it takes to run the battery down fully, although I did that when it was 
new for the battery calibration. If I was forced to make a guess, I'd say 
it's pretty close to 50/50 battery/plugged-in. This is pretty much the 
behavior I've used with all my Li-ion rechargeable devices and haven't had 
any problems other than with my POS HP laptop, which was what the PB 
replaced.

matt.

On 6/30/05, Richard McKay <richard.mckay1 at virgin.net> wrote:
> 
> On 30/6/05 00:09, "Jean-Paul Thuot" <fearsome.orange at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The first one was the 17" PB introduced Jan. 2003 and since then all 17"
> models have it and increasingly the 15" models (at first only higher spec
> 15's and now only the 12" models are not illuminated...yet).
> 
> You can check yours by looking at the keys for F8-F10 as these show the
> icons for either turning it off F8, reducing it F9, or increasing the
> brightness F10, as well as the options available under Keyboard & Mouse in
> Sys Prefs. (at least in Tiger).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Richard
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