[P1] Battery Observations

[Tom R. no spam]

Some iBooks circa summer 2001 at least had bad batteries.
Even if you don't have AppleCare extended warranty on your
(apparently > 1 year old) iBook, a new battery might be
covered.  With AppleCare, they just ask if you've tried
a Power Manager reset, etc before they'll give you a
free replacement. Failure on mine involved charging to
~"4 hours", then quickly dropping to ~3, then ~2 then ~1,
then a sleep or shutdown without the usual warning to
plug in quick.  But it started not unlike your description.

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Per Brodersen wrote:

> I have my iBook (November 2001) for 14 months now and the battery is losing
> quickly its power - on Mac OS X 10.2.3 without any hardware additions (more
> RAM etc.), now I get only one hour of battery life according to the battery
> display - although I can run some time on "0%".
> Have reset the Power Manager - obviously, to no avail.