[P1] OS X to install or not to install...

[Joe Jones]

On Friday, Jun 6, 2003, at 07:42 America/Chicago, daniel wrote:

> Hi,
> I have the iBook (the first «icebook» 10gig harddisk, 384megs).
> I have always System 9 (9.2.1).
> I never keep OS X because I use Word and the battery life was not good 
> for
> me.
> But now, few years later, the last OS X is it different about the life 
> of
> the battery or it is better that I stick with System 9.2.1?
> Thank's
> Daniel

Word (heh) on this.

I can get 4 or 5 hours out of my battery normally, but when I use Word 
in Office X my battery life tumbles to about 2 hours, even when Word is 
just sitting there (no typing, no saving etc). I'm pretty sure it's the 
app.

I would theorise that it's an MS conspiracy to reduce the battery 
running times of Apple laptops to a figure similar to PC laptops, but I 
know that there's a separate bunch of programmers working on Mac 
products at MS.

Joe