[P1] Accidental battery life development, continued

Brian Pearce bpearce at cloud9.net
Wed Jul 9 10:43:46 PDT 2003


> 	I have, in fact, gone the other way... I had installed the 10.3 
> preview shortly
> after it's announcement, and my battery life instantly went from 4+ 
> hours per charge
> to roughly 2-2 1/4 hours. I've reset all manner of settings I can 
> think of, but nothing
> has brought that count back up. I've since re-installed 10.2.6, but 
> have seen no
> change... any ideas?

Offhand, I'd venture a barely-educated guess that the 10.3 preview 
might have caused an increase in disc access for VM operations (being 
as it's a beta version and still in development); but that wouldn't 
explain why the situation wasn't remedied when you reinstalled 10.2.6. 
I'm stumped.

BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net



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