Jim The battery is playing games with me. Earlier today I managed to boot the PowerBook on a fully charged battery and then the machine died and went to sleep.
I am now coming up for an hour of usage, heavy usage. I ran every piece of software installed, checked for updates for all and am currently downloading an Office update. It still shows it has half a battery left, estimated 59 minutes. If it does hold out, that will be two hours, if it dies now it will still be an hour. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. On Nov 23 2008, Jim Scott wrote: On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > > Hi > > I have a PowerBook battery and charging question. > > It took about 3 hours to charge the battery to full. I was using it > at the > time and it is not an official charger, just one of those cheap > white ones, > so it may not be a high power one. > > I can live with this, however on full charge the battery lasted less > than > ten minutes before putting the machine to sleep. > > Does this indicate the battery is just about dead. > > I ran Coconut Battery again today: > > Original battery: 4220mAh > Current battery: 2885mAh > Battery-Loadcycles: 742 > > On full charge it measures only 68% in Coconut Battery. > > I would have thought personally, given the results from Coconut > Battery, it > would have held for about an hour. > > Any ideas? Any help? > > Simon I'd be looking for a new, or better, battery. The problem is not so much that your battery utility says the battery has about two-thirds of its "life" remaining, it is that 742 load cycles is about twice the number you should reasonably expect to get. As it is, the battery already has lasted almost twice as long as "normal," in my experience. Batteries do wear out. Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
