And also be sure to calibrate your battery at least once a month, by
calibrate I mean follow the procedure I outlined in my original
message of totally exhausting the battery so in other words, if you
have a Macbook or whatever then take it off power from time-to-time.
When I had my Ibook, I often found the easiest way to go calibrating
batteries was to disconnect the power and listen to talking books
whilst in bed, then I'd fall asleep and the computer would stop
working when the battery became exhausted, ready for me to reconnect
the power, recharge the battery and continue working the next morning.
On 18/09/2007, at 4:24 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I've had web sites with some kind of CPU intensive flash ads suck my
batteries down. Burning CDs, compressing Audio and other CPU
intensive processing will also shorten battery life quite a bit. If
you don't need the screen then be sure it's dimmed all the way down
which turns off the backlighting. I've hit 5-6 hours on a battery
with the screen off and low CPU applications like text editing for
taking notes at conferences.
CB
Dane Trethowan wrote:
Indeed, but if settings are set to to off or nill then I'm lead to
believe that a battery should last about 3.5-4 hours, of course it
will last longer if energy saving features are turned on,
brightness reduced etc.
On 17/09/2007, at 1:35 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Battery life estimation is not an exact science. It's quite common
for battery times to go up and down a bit depending on exactly what
your computer is doing internally at any given moment, and this is
not at all exclusive to macs.
Josh de Lioncourt
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