[P1] Love the iBook, but battery life seems kinda skimpy!

[Allan Hise]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Joe wrote:

> My iBook 600mhz, 12 in display, is 9 months old. I'm running Jaguar
> 10.2.2. I use the strictest energy conservation savings, and display is
> always dimmed to near dark...I only get about 2hours and 20-40 minutes
> worth of life when "fully charged."
>
> Couple of caveats though:
>
> I use the airport card and I installed a 512 mb dimm in the iBook. I
> figure this is why the battery life has been limited...
>
> Any thoughts?

I have a similar arrangement - only things different are mine is 700 MHz
and I'm on 10.2.3

I get about 3.25 hours with airport off, 2.5-2.75 hours with it on, so you
seem to be in the same ballpark as me.

Allan