>> Some time back, before the issue of panics or the monitor not working at >> all, I did notice the monitor would indicate the battery had only one minute >> left, but the laptop would run for perhaps 10 minutes before it powered off. >> Is there some sort of "safety factor" which is a bit too pessimistic? >>> hal cannot cause a panic. Do you have the stack >>> trace? > > It's an estimate and it also depends on the condition of the battery. > I think GPM may have a better estimate.
For some batteries, the last 10 minutes of life is hard to estimate. It's like something dying and keeps trying to hang on to life. It is definitely not linear. I would probably have to find my differential calculus books to make a better estimate :) In addition, I remember that Windows and MacOS do not even give time estimates at all. In b93, GPM is integrated which supposedly has a better estimate than before. Phi
