Re: Battery and screen care
I just want to say thanks to everyone who gave advice on battery and screen care. Donna -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery and screen care
On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 06:09 PM, Donna Dolezal Zelzer wrote: I just bought a new iBook 3 weeks ago -- my first experience with both a laptop and OSX and I love both! As someone who has been using Apple laptops since 1995 I can easily state that I still share your enthusiasm. Congrats! Anyway, I was wondering about some general maintenance stuff: 1. What do you clean the screen with? The best stuff, by far, is put out by Klear Screen. (www.klearscreen.com) Their products do not use alcohol - which is terribly important - and are sold by Apple in the Apple stores. It's what we use here for our PowerBook users and I wholeheartedly recommend it. You need to be extremely careful about what you use to clear and dry your LCD display. Repeated use of alcohol-based products will, over time, prematurely age your screen and cause discoloration and cracking. Make sure to get a lint-free non-scratching polishing cloth. A chamois is great but I use the Laptop ScreensaverZ from Radtech (www.radtech.us). This nice piece of cloth serves a double duty: I can clean my screen safely with it and it covers my keyboard when my PowerBook is closed, preventing keymarks on the screen. The keyboard can actually come in contact with the screen when it's closed and the oil and dirt from my grubby fingers would necessitate my cleaning the screen more often. 2. I'm normally working someplace where I can use the power adapter. Is this OK, or does the battery need to be used occasionally and then recharged? If yes, how often and how low should the charge go before I recharge? Someone else may correct me, but AFAIK, there is no memory associated with the batteries Apple uses in the iBook and PowerBook. You can either leave the computer plugged in or not; I've run my battery down multiple times and have not yet noticed any dropoff in available charge. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I wouldn't worry too much about it. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
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20031009 2. I'm normally working someplace where I can use the power adapter. Is this OK, or does the battery need to be used occasionally and then recharged? If yes, how often and how low should the charge go before I recharge? Someone else may correct me, but AFAIK, there is no memory associated with the batteries Apple uses in the iBook and PowerBook. You can either leave the computer plugged in or not; I've run my battery down multiple times and have not yet noticed any dropoff in available charge. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I wouldn't worry too much about it. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 317-572-3049 --- Phil, the only amplification I might make on your advice is that the Li-on batteries have a life limit as to charge cycles, so short charging them when they do not need much charging might constitute a bad thing. Certainly they are far removed from the memory-hampered Ni-Cad batteries of old (and new Motorola GMRS radios). But our compulsive desire to always have our batteries fully charged probably contributes to shortening the lives of these high tech energy cells. I thought about this after discussing the rather short life I was getting from my cell phone batteries with a local vendor of same. Same issue, and think of how many of us simply plug in our cell phones to either our car or home charger every chance we get. Mine have only been lasting about a year, though the advent of digital service in our area has helped a lot (uses less power). Comment, anyone? Jim -- Tanglewood Ordinary Restaurant True FamilyStyle Dining since 1986 On the Virginia Landmarks Register Anne Jim Hardwick, Proprietors 2210 River Road West Maidens, VA 23102-2705 804-556-3284 804-556-4432 (personal emergencies) 804-350-6895 cell phone/vmail E-fax 1-707-929-1392 (comes to us as e mail) PDF files welcome in lieu of faxes -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
