[Ti] New 15"s have HORRIBLE battery life (So does my 17")

[Peter Krug]

>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.
>

Here's a specific - I woke up this morning, my sleeping PB woke up 
with 93% charge.  I've been on airport reading mail and hitting the 
occasional website for the last 1 hour and 15 minutes.  I'm down to 
48% charge.  I'm in the dark, so my screen brightness is way down 
(but the keyboard brightness is on, 4 dots up).  In this case, it's 
about 1.5 minutes per percent charge (75 minutes/45% drop).  In the 
time it took me to write this, my battery is down to 45% charge and 
my online time is 80 minutes.  Maybe I've got a flakey battery?  Or 
is this normal?

Thanks,

Peter
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