[P1] Battery problems

[J McClernan]

We have replaced more than 30 batteries in the 60 iBooks that were delivered
last June. They were still under warranty. Took ours to an authorized Apple
Service Center (not a chain store). Take yours in, they should honor the
warranty and replace it. It's only going to get worse. Mine was down to 10
minutes of life when we got it replaced.
Cheers,
John


On 5/02/2003 5:45 PM, "Paul Bernhardt" <pbern10 at xmission.com> wrote:

> OK... now I've been hit by the battery problem.
> 
> Dual USB iBook, new in late August 02, 700MHz.
> OS 10.2.5 updated a week or so ago.
> 
> Noticed it running iTunes 4 day before yesterday with 'visualizer'
> running. Yesterday I duplicated it as follows: I started with 2 hours 49
> minutes battery power after unplugging from wall. Playing a song with
> visualizer quickly drains the battery. 7 minutes of Pink Floyd with
> visualizer and its down to about 1 hour 15 minutes of battery left. I
> stopped the visualizer, which seemed to help a lot, the battery going up
> to about 1 hour 40 minutes left. I started surfing the web with iTunes
> playing in the background. I wasn't monitoring the battery any more.
> About 10 minutes later it suddenly went to sleep due to low battery, no
> warning... when operating normally a warning appears that you should shut
> down and that unwarned shutdown will occur shortly. I didn't get that
> warning.
> 
> I recall much discussion occuring a month or so ago.
> 
> What was the bottom lines found in that discussion?
> 
> Paul
> 
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