On 31/10/2008, at 12:04 PM, Will Lomas wrote:
hi to all
it seems that the first gen macbooks gave 4 hours or more even with
wireless and screen dimmed to 0 percent.
The newer macbooks that anne and I have plus a few others i.e. core
2 duo 2.0 and above, have lower capacity batteries
Hi.
Are you sure about this? I've got A recent Macbook, I.e. I bought it
about a month ago, ironically just before they released the new one,
<grin>.
Anyway, I'm getting at *least* 4 to 4.5 hours, even with airport on.
Admittedly, this is without bluetooth and with the machine set to
better battery life and with the screen dimmed to zero.
Without airport it's higher than that.
Admittedly, as I'm sure others have said, it depends what you're
doing. Anything that involves a lot of hard drive access will pull
that down a *lot*.
Also, the amount of battery time it says you have is dependent on what
you've been doing just before you check it. In other words, if you're
reading the newspaper in Safari and ask how long you've got, it might
say you've got 4 hours. If 5 minutes later, you start doing something
that uses the hard drive heavily, it might say you only have 2 hours
left and so on. Believe it or not, it's trying to be helpful, <grin>.
The numbers you need to look at in, say, coconut battery which I think
I remember someone using are the original capacity and the current
capacity. You don't need to understand the numbers, but if they're
close then there's nothing much wrong with your battery.
I have no idea whether any of this is useful, since I haven't been
following much email for the last couple of days, <grin>.
Finally, in the realms of idle speculation, I've often wondered
whether you'd get better battery life if you *didn't* use alix as VO's
voice. I've never tried it, but alix seems to make your machine work a
bit harder than some of the lesser quality voices.
