[Ti] New 15"s have HORRIBLE battery life

[Benn]

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 11:56  AM, Peter Krug wrote:
> Well I guess I haven't mentioned it here, but my LunchTrayDeluxe has 
> pretty crappy battery life, too.  I get no more than 3 hours (max) and 
> routinely get between 2 and 2.5 hours.  Throw in Airport and it gets 
> worse - AE drops the battery on the order of 1% every minute or so.  
> And yes, I lower my screen brightness and set the Energy Saver prefs 
> to save juice.  I always chalked it up to the huge 17-inch screen 
> drawing so much power.

That's a shame!  I usually have no problems getting over 3 hours on my 
17", with airport on. screen fairly dimmed and performance down.  Using 
just a few apps (just typing or chatting or something) I can get about 
4.

Benn