Battery life for me has been shorten but not excessively. As we all know there are some many variables when it comes to measuring battery life. I have a battery in each bay for both of my WS PB's and I can get on average 2.5 to three hours of life. Be advised that I use a PC card for Firewire and USB and this will take additional power.
If I really wanted to I could scale down power usage and extend this to 3.5 to 4 hours max. One thing to note about using a Sonnet upgrade--you can't use processor cycling in OS 9 as this will lock up the PowerBook. I am talking freezing solid. Sonnet will tell you this in their literature. They're right. I am using Street Atlas w/ a GPS connected to a USB card while driving. Very useful and last about 2 hours. I have a power converter in the car when the batts get low. Byron On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 04:19 PM, David Pekarsky wrote: > I too have a question regarding the processor upgrades for the > wallstreet machines. What can one expect for battery life after the > upgrade especially for the G4 upgrade? Can someone who has the upgrade > comment on this? > Also to clarify a point made earlier, not all powerbook series II > machines (first series wallstreet, second series PDQ, of the > "wallstreet" series II powerbook) have a 66mhz bus speed. The original > 292mhz and others of the "wallstreet" powerbook series have an 82mhz > bus speed as a comment was made earlier indicating that all of the > wallstreet and PDQ series had a 66mhz bus speed. See lowendmac.com's > profile on the machines for clarification on the machine's naming > scheme which as usual, is quite confusing. > Dave > > PDQ Powerbook 300mhz, 8gb, 384mb, and 10.2.3 > > -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
