Clamshell battery period | 4.1.7 firmware?

[Marc van Gemert]

Just got my 466 SE iBook :-) It's cool!
But the battery lasted for only 45 mins :-(
I did the PMU reset and let the batt completely drain as suggested on 
Apple's kbase and several user reports on the net (I had first tried to 
charge the batt several times when it was almost drained).

After I got the warning that memory was low and that it would set itself 
to sleep I tried to drain the battery completely by playing a streaming 
QuickTime movie, and it lasted for over 40 mins with a darkened screen 
(backlight off) before it actually went to a forced sleep, is that normal?

Anyway I closed the lid and connected the power adaper (which is not 
really an iBook adapter, but from a PB G3, same 45W), I let it charge 
for over 2 hours and after that the battery time is up to 2,5/ 3 hours!
Woohoo! Luckily I don't have to buy a new battery for 170 euros!
I can use that money now to buy a 512MB SO DIMM!
Just installed a spare 32MB from an iMac till I'll get that 512.

And I already have an Airport card, just need an ABS or any other WAP...

Oh yeah, one question about the 4.1.7 firmware update, Software Update 
says that that has to be installed, any problems I should encounter and 
what are the benefits if I install this update, OS X compatability 
perhaps? Running 9.2.2 for now...

TIA,
Marc

BTW the IBM 10GB HD is a bit noisy, a bit of a whirring sound, do you 
listers have that too?



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