[P1] Accidental battery life development, continued

[Michael Adams]

Brian Pearce wrote:

>>     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. 


IIRC, the same thing happened to lots of people with the 10.2.4 
update... battery life went down, (to insanely low levels) but reverting 
to 10.2.3 didn't fix matters at all. In this case I seem to remember the 
problem was fautly batteries. Not sure if your problem could be 
something similar. Does the same thing happened in OS 9?

--Michael.