My previous email was strangely prophetic. Woke up this morning to find that the powerbook battery indicator flashes on the 1 light and that the power cable no longer lights up.
Most problematically, the laptop didn't unsleep and I ended up taking the battery out to force it to power off. However now it does not power on at all, and still no recharging light on the power cable. Is this what a dead battery looks like? Should a powerbook run without a battery but with mains power attached? Thanks, Hen On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jan 18, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > I'm wondering what I could have done to make the battery last longer. > > Whenever in reach of a socket [and without a need to power up the > > battery], should I have been using my laptop without a battery? > > The batteries in most laptops have a finite life, and their clocks > start ticking as soon as they leave the assembly line. They die after a > few years, and the only cure is replacement. You can try things like > resetting the power manager and open firmware. > > Here are a couple of Apple's tech pages that you might find useful. > > <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42642> > > <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449> > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
