Powerbook charging question
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From: Peter Ceresole on 7 May 2010 05:33 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Correct - if nothing else the battery in the PBoko is also getting old > and not giving a lot of time from a full charge - hour, hour and a half > maybe. Golly, that's a lot. Not very old or used, then. I have a 667 TiBook parked in Geneva, with its original PSU which works fine, which I use as a desktop, with a modem. That runs on battery for 20 minutes, max. More like ten. But the highest number OS it will run is 10.3.9, which is sort of okay but the whole thing is getting limited and jolly slow. When my new iMac turns up (a complicated story) I'll take the iG5 to Geneva; it's modem ready and with the Keyspan USB<->serial adapter I'm already using out there, I will be able to use my USR Courier, which is so much better and quicker than the built-in Apple modem in the TiBook that it's unreal... Unless the iG5's built in modem is astonishingly better than the TiBook's, that'll be the way to go. So actually... I'm quite looking forward to the experience. No no! More pain! Hit me harder! For all your needs, Miss Whippy Lashy fulfils your dreams. But an Apple modem is cheaper... -- Peter
From: Rowland McDonnell on 8 May 2010 20:08
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > Correct - if nothing else the battery in the PBoko is also getting old > > and not giving a lot of time from a full charge - hour, hour and a half > > maybe. > > Golly, that's a lot. Not very old or used, then. My other half used to get `usually more than three' hours out of her PowerBook. An hour and a half is /okay/, but a sign that the battery isn't what it was if you ask me. It's certainly *NOT* a long time for running a PowerBook on battery. [snip] Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |