On 4/19/03 4:19 PM, "Jerry Krinock" <dearjerry at mindspring.com> wrote: > Hmmm. I wonder if this is related to people reporting increased battery > runtime estimates. It could be that, in response to people complaining > about not getting 5 hours, Apple changed the battery runtime estimation > algorithm to make it more liberal, and this increased the probabability > that, sometime, it overestimates by more than 10 minutes, and so it runs out > with no warning. It's an interesting idea, but I believe that the warning is tied to a percent battery level (if I remember correctly, warning at 9% and sleep at 4%) -- Samuel W. Hotchkiss President, Contractor Services, LLC. hotch at zlit.net Laptop History: PB 145, PB 520c, PB 3400c, 400mhz Pismo, 400mhz TiBook, 667mhz TiBook (rev b), 1ghz TiBook