Prolonging Battery Life

[Tom Burke]

I think that's pretty typical of what can happen. There's no real 
connection between the battery-life-remaining figure and the actual 
state of the battery; the computer just gets a 'charge indication' from 
the battery and works out some sort of 'life remaining' time from 
computed algorithms. If the battery is going to lose charge very 
quickly then that figure can be way out, just as yours was.

Did the displayed 'time remaining' figure reduce very quickly along 
with the battery charge, or was it still at a high figure (1 hour or 
so) when the battery died?

Tom Burke

> Message-Id: <39F6A48A-C6F1-11D8-BF29-000502135DD2 at pacbell.net>
> From: BG <briang113 at pacbell.net>
> Subject: Re: [P1] FW: [P1] Prolonging Battery Life
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:47:16 -0700
>
> I have a correction, it appears the battery life is not as good as the
> computer thinks it is.
>
> As I was running on the battery I did not even get an hour of power
> before it died.
>
> So back to the drawer it goes.
>
> oh well
>
> BG