Battery 10.2.8 Update!

[Massimo Marino]

On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 02:39  PM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List 
wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:41:40 -0600
>> Subject: Re: [Ti] Can the discussion end now? 10.2.8 Update!
>> From: Tom Seid <t.seid at comcast.net>
>> Message-ID: <BBA34934.4D3B%t.seid at comcast.net>
>>
>> TiBook 1GHZ...1 Gig ram....
>>
>> Upgrade DONE...First impression...
>> All seems fine....battery says 2Hr 42 min, which is exactly what it 
>> was
>> before...launched most of my apps...all seem to be functioning as
>> before my
>> restart...internet, airport...all up and running...Fast...No brainer
>> at this
>> point...
>> Good luck to all
>> Tom
>
>
> Same here, battery over 2:30 hrs with screen full brightness. I will
> "recalibrate" as per Apple's note.
>

After re-calibration battery at 3:29 hrs with screen at lowest 
brightness setting (usual - for me - set of apps running but no 
intensive work load). I noticed the following peculiar behavior toward 
the end of calibration: when battery showed 0:02 minutes left (and 
watching BBC 10 O'Clock News video) *life* went on for 20 (TWENTY) 
minutes more with the time re-adjusting constantly: it even showed over 
30' mins left. Then started to decrease monotonically again and finally 
went to sleep.
Now I get - again - 3+ hrs at low screen brightness and light workload 
(as this email or web surfing, etc: no code development cycles)

Massimo