> 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. FWIW, I tried draining the battery down to zero and charging it back up, which is something I don't often do, and my battery life came back up to 4:47, on an 89% charge (still charging, presently.) However, I put it to sleep to go answer the phone, and now it's saying I have 1:17 on 90% charge. I'm a little stumped. I don't really want to call up Apple and ask, however, about 10.3 problems because I wasn't at the conference: one of the programmers that works for my father, was— that's who I'd got it from— but, still... andy calgary, alberta, canada