On Jan 18, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > I'm wondering what I could have done to make the battery last longer. > Whenever in reach of a socket [and without a need to power up the > battery], should I have been using my laptop without a battery?
The batteries in most laptops have a finite life, and their clocks start ticking as soon as they leave the assembly line. They die after a few years, and the only cure is replacement. You can try things like resetting the power manager and open firmware. Here are a couple of Apple's tech pages that you might find useful. <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42642> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
