[P1] Battery life for 1yr old iBook

[Milton van der Veen]

Hi Brett,

Just one more comment. I bought my iBook in July of 2001 as well. The 
battery was starting to lose its effectiveness before the end of the 
first year. In addition, the charger plug wasn't working properly and I 
had to jiggle it to get it to charge the battery. I sent my iBook in 
for repair. (And bought AppleCare just in case.) When I got the iBook 
back, the battery was in even worse shape and eventually it got around 
an hour or so. I talked to my local Apple dealer who said he'd look 
after it and he did. Today I picked up a new battery and gave him my 
old one. No cost.

It's nice to see a number greater than (1:00) at the top of the screen 
as I'm typing this and running on the battery -- (3:29) actually. I 
always run Airport on my iBook by the way.

Milton

p.s. It's interesting to see your message under this subject heading. I 
was about to delete it like the most recent ones in this thread.

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 04:38  PM, Brett Forrester wrote:

> Dear iBook Listers,
>
> Thank you for the incoming responses regarding expected battery life 
> for a one-year-old iBook (iceBook, dual USB, Marble, P29, 
> what-nickname have you). I hope to read a few more, but I do find it 
> curious so few of you have responded, given that this is the iBook 
> List and that presumably more than ten of us have such type of iBooks 
> to our name. (I also find it curious that we on the have such 
> difficulty staying on topic--battery life of iBooks--but that 
> observation stems from my composition-instructor incarnation, and 
> without tangents, really, what fun would all this be?)
>
> The consensus seems to be that between three and five hours of battery 
> use should still be available to a one-year-old (probably closer to 
> 1-1/2 in my own case) iBook battery, depending on AirPort use, and 
> conditions of backlighting, sound volume, and CD access, as the 
> following example (not all) excerpts suggest (names withheld to 
> protect the innocent):