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Authored by: megasad on Nov 15, '02 11:27:22AM

Since 10.2 I've been getting 1 hour maximum out my one year old iBook, where in 10.1 I'd get 2 1/2 to 3 hours. So I'm on my way home now to try this out and if it works I shall be a happy bunny...



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Drat
Authored by: megasad on Nov 15, '02 03:47:01PM

Alas, I am a sad bunny. I did what was said, but my battery still only lasts 1 hour. Oh well.



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Authored by: wuf810 on Nov 15, '02 05:18:31PM

Drop the brightness of your screen down a few notches - it makes all the difference.



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Drat (maybe not!)
Authored by: BTPearcy on Nov 16, '02 10:01:31AM
I had the same problem, and much to my surprise, Apple considered my battery covered under Applecare! Sent the computer in (it also had a broken latch) and back it came with a brand spankin' new battery, and now I get ~5 hours on my iBook (with the screen down to the lowest brightness setting of course). So if you are still covered, send it in!

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Authored by: Marco Cottone on Nov 19, '02 05:57:54AM

If there is a process that read/writes data at regular intervals of time, the hard disk never spins down. Maybe an investigation about this could help?



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