On Feb 5, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Brian Troisi wrote:
> I don't think it's failing.... I just bought it, and it > seems to be fine. I can live with that problem though, I still get 4 > hours of battery life and up. New batteries need to be calibrated. charge it all the way up, then use it on the battery alone until it shuts down past the sleep warning, then charge it all the way back up. If it still behaves like this after the calibration steps, then the battery is likely faulty. (When I got the NewerTech extended life battery for my Pismo, the first one I got was bad, OWC exchanged it for another and, after calibrating, gave me several hours of battery life. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
