[iBook] What battery life are you getting?

[Reid Conti]

I just think the batteries like to die.  I'm on my third on my 600mhz
ibook.  I buy a new one when the battery life gets down to around 2
hours.

- reid


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:28:19 -0400, Justin Herald
<justin.herald at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Jaguar had negative effects on my battery. I was getting about 4 hours
> with 10.1 and then when I upgraded to Jaguar that began to reduce
> quickly. Using my computer the way I normally do (half brightness, full
> proc power) I started getting no more than 45 minutes within a month
> after Jag. Then, I bought a new battery thinking that was the only
> issure and I never got over 2 hours.  A little while after I upgraded
> to Panther, I took my battery back to the Apple Store and they gave me
> a G4 iBook's battery. Now with my iBook G3 600 i get 4-5 hours.
> 
> It seems like your battery might just be getting old though.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 21, 2004, at 10:55 AM, Tom Legare wrote:
> 
> > Hello Folks,
> >
> > On my 500MHz iBook running OS X 10.3.5 my battery life is only lasting
> > about an hour these days.  When this computer was new, I could get 3.5
> > hours in OS9 mode.  Now, it seems to get shorter and shorter with each
> > updated version of OS X.
> >
> > I can push a few extra minutes out of it by keeping the screen dimmer,
> > and I already "refreshed" the battery using the NVRAM trick Dan
> > mentioned on this list a couple weeks ago.
> >
> > Is this just normal for an older model iBook running the newer OS?
> > Are you getting similar results or have suggestions to bring this
> > battery back to life?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tom
> >
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