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Have you upgraded to 10.2.8 yet? I have noticed a useful improvement in
battery life since this upgrade, from typically 1.5 hours back to 2
hours plus. This on a machine with a 550MHz G4 upgrade and running
Airport on the original battery.
The general impression
David,
I had the same 'coincidence'. I found even booting natively into 9
showed the same reduced battery life, after installing 10. Were you
upgrading from 9 to jag or from another version of 10? I noticed
battery life reduction each time; a lot (~50%) 9 > 10.1, maybe 10 - 15%
more, 10.1 > J
Joe,
Nothing like that, but on a somewhat related note, I've noticed after
installing OS X on my B&W G4 that all files that had an accented
character in their names were kinda renamed. e.g. 'Nèmèsys' was renamed
to 'Ne`me`sys', or something similar. When I mount a partition on my
PowerBook that h
After reading some of the posts here on battery life I was reminded to check
my second battery since I normally run with my CD/DVD player installed. It
was almost depleted so I put it in to charge overnight and left the computer
in sleep mode. When I went to check my machine the next morning, some
At some point, maybe a "subnotebook" will be marketable by Apple again?
I read anarticle on lowend awhile back about a travel to Hong kong
someone took and the subnotebook seemed ubiquitous.
I agree that expandability is a premium quality and the Pismo nailed
that.
Some folks out there seem to
Thanks Donald! I'll call them today.
Jim
On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 09:03 PM, Donald Keenan wrote:
> I called AppleCare yesterday with several nagging questions.
> They told me that once the battery life drops down to an hour OR SO,
> it's an issue that they'd consider worthy of replac
> >I agree about your concerns about the TiBook. That's why I bought a
>>Pismo myself.
>
>That's why I _still_ have my Pismo.
>
>>We're all waiting for that anodized TiBook, no? The next one is rumored
>>to be black with silver as a built to order option.
>
>That's fine. But I don't give a rat's
>I agree about your concerns about the TiBook. That's why I bought a
>Pismo myself.
That's why I _still_ have my Pismo.
>We're all waiting for that anodized TiBook, no? The next one is rumored
>to be black with silver as a built to order option.
That's fine. But I don't give a rat's ass about
Sorry Jim...in an earlier post i referred to your "TiBook". That should
have been Pismo.
I agree about your concerns about the TiBook. That's why I bought a
Pismo myself.
We're all waiting for that anodized TiBook, no? The next one is rumored
to be black with silver as a built to order option.
I called AppleCare yesterday with several nagging questions.
They told me that once the battery life drops down to an hour OR SO,
it's an issue that they'd consider worthy of replacement.
PowerBooks are supposed to be desktop equal, no? i would hope that your
RAM and AirPort wouldn't hobble the
I have 1 Gig of RAM and a 30 Gig HD under 9.2.2 and I get about 2 to 3 hours
from each of my batteries, but my third battery seems to have suddenly gone
belly up and won't last more than 10 min.
Tom
> I have 768 ram, airport and a 40 gig hd, so maybe my system is
> demanding more. I guess I could
It may be that the decline of my battery has simply coincided with my
upgrade path. I've been assuming my battery is shot tried to replace it
once.
Jim
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 02:00 PM, John Haumann wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:
>
>> My
That would be good. But I doubt it would be covered.
I have 768 ram, airport and a 40 gig hd, so maybe my system is
demanding more. I guess I could test it under 9.2. I'm getting pretty
tired of always having to plug in or risk having my computer drop dead
after a few minutes.
Jim
On Wednes
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 05:26 PM, John Haumann wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:
>
>> My battery life has gone to almost nothing with 10.2. I was down to
>> maybe half an hour before that. Now it won't even hold a charge when
>> it's sleeping.
On Wednesday, Sep 4, 2002, at 16:58 US/Pacific, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> How new is your battery? That's damn good runtime for the amount of
> RAM as
> well as Airport.
I have three batteries, they all came with the Pismo which I bought
when it was four months old in March 2001. So, the
How new is your battery? That's damn good runtime for the amount of RAM as
well as Airport.
on 9/4/02 2:11 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote:
> I have exactly the same results with my Pismo, usually 3 - 3.5 hours but
> occasionally shorter. That's with 512MB and constant Airport usage,
> screen brightnes
Well...is this perhaps any indication of a need for a new battery or is
it certainly a result of the OS's demands? I have a few months of
AppleCare left and have read on the list a couple of stories of
batteries being replaced when they don't hold a good charge. I'm
wondering if I should call
Stuart Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anybody noticed how battery life is under Jagwah on a Pismo?
> Or is it still down to the 2 hours of OS X vs 4 ~ 5 hours under 9.x?
Well, at least with my Wallstreet II sleep time has increased quite a
bit, due entirely to the cooling fan
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, John Haumann wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:
>
> > My battery life has gone to almost nothing with 10.2. I was down to
> > maybe half an hour before that. Now it won't even hold a charge when
> > it's sleeping.
> >
>
> Caffeine, th
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:
> My battery life has gone to almost nothing with 10.2. I was down to
> maybe half an hour before that. Now it won't even hold a charge when
> it's sleeping.
>
Caffeine, that's the answer!
It's curious that such a big issue still
My battery life has gone to almost nothing with 10.2. I was down to
maybe half an hour before that. Now it won't even hold a charge when
it's sleeping.
Jim
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 09:14 PM, Stuart Saunders wrote:
> Has anybody noticed how battery life is under Jagwah on a Pismo?
>
Has anybody noticed how battery life is under Jagwah on a Pismo?
Or is it still down to the 2 hours of OS X vs 4 ~ 5 hours under 9.x?
Has anybody compared the CPU temp under 9 to that under 10 and or Jagwah?
I imagine that most of the reduction in battery life must be going to
heating the CPU.
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