[P1] Battery problems

[Paul Bernhardt]

So, it is a problem with the batteries itself, not software nor charging 
system... OK! I'll take it in tomorrow!

Paul

J McClernan said on 5/2/03 4:05 PM:

>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?
>>