Battery life issues

[Charles Pearce]

I know this path has been trod before on this list, but at the time, I 
was paying little attention because it didn't affect me....until now.

I was regularly getting 2 or 3 hours of battery life until I updated to 
10.2.8 and then it went down to about 15 minutes. It hasn't come back 
with the upgrade to Panther either. Needless to say, an iBook that has 
to be plugged in all the time is pretty much useless as a portable 
device.

Can this list repeat some of the tricks that have been posted to redeem 
battery life? BTW - it's a 700Mhz, 12-inch screen, dual USB and 
firewire.

Thanks.

Charles Pearce (charlesp at ksu.edu)