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.<br>
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matt.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard McKay</b> <<a href="mailto:richard.mckay1@virgin.net">richard.mckay1@virgin.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 30/6/05 00:09, "Jean-Paul Thuot" <<a href="mailto:fearsome.orange@gmail.com">fearsome.orange@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> I bought my PB second hand from a friend. It is about 1.5 years old<br>> now (I think, any way for me to tell exactly?). The battery gets
<br>> about 2 hours from a full charge. I think he used his battery fairly<br>> extensively, and I can see that getting a new battery in the future is<br>> a likelihood for me.<br>><br>> Which PBs have keyboards that light up? I've never seen mine light
<br>> up, so I'm assuming it's not this one. It's a FireWire 800 1Ghz Al.<br><br>The first one was the 17" PB introduced Jan. 2003 and since then all 17"<br>models have it and increasingly the 15" models (at first only higher spec
<br>15's and now only the 12" models are not illuminated...yet).<br><br>You can check yours by looking at the keys for F8-F10 as these show the<br>icons for either turning it off F8, reducing it F9, or increasing the
<br>brightness F10, as well as the options available under Keyboard & Mouse in<br>Sys Prefs. (at least in Tiger).<br><br>HTH,<br><br>Richard<br>--<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PowerBook mailing list
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