The Powerbook 800 Mhz only lasts 1.5 hours on OS X?
I thought it was just me that noticed it when I test drove the 800 Mhz PB at Fry's. It's is frigid fast!
However, is it really true the battery only lasts 1.5 hrs. under OS X?
<a href="http://www.barefeats.com/pb8b.html" target="_blank">http://www.barefeats.com/pb8b.html</a>
However, is it really true the battery only lasts 1.5 hrs. under OS X?
<a href="http://www.barefeats.com/pb8b.html" target="_blank">http://www.barefeats.com/pb8b.html</a>
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but i got 2.1 hours out of my battery watching a dvd... fyi ... it's a great machine... i very happy and this is my 3 powerbook...
300 wallstreet
400 pismo
800 dvi
cheers
This in OS X mind you
My Dell Latitude that my company forces me to use, gets less than 2hrs, and it is a PII.
Gimme a break.
[ 05-29-2002: Message edited by: Anders ]</p>
<strong> Is the new Ti in a completly new league compared to the Pismo? Does it make the pismo feel like a computer from another decade?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes. Give one a whirl at an Apple Store, or Apple-authorized retailer. You'll see.
The new Ti is excellent.
OS X still sucks for portables. Energy Saver MIA, etc.
So can someone post their OS 9 stats please? Thank you in advance.
<strong>I thought us Macheads always used to shove it in PC user's faces about how PC laptops only got a couple hours while Mac laptops had FAR superior battery life. This is very sad if true. Makes me second guess getting a PBG4 now.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well if you need a laptop then what are you gunna do?
[ 05-29-2002: Message edited by: Nukenin ]</p>
I did a battery run down test on my new 667 tonight. I can't see the 800 getting half the run time of a 667 (according to BareFeats)
My energy saving measures:
Screen brightness set to 1/2 (still VERY readable at this level - I never keep it at full even plugged in)
hard drive spin down\t5 min
screen shut down\t5 min
reduced processor speed
I also had Airport running the whole time.
Basically your usual internet/email/text editing kind of thing. I had the following applications running:
iTunes
Internet Explorer
Entourage
MSN Messenger
TextEdit
Graphic Converter
So I was surfing the net with iTunes running constantly in background for the entire test. I edited a few digital photos of my new house to send off to my folks. Answered a few emails, chatted with a few friends. Cranked up the PowerBook when a good song came up. Farted around with the visuals a bit. Fired up Omni Outliner for the first time, tooled around with that. Installed TinkerTool and tweaked that a little. Organized some of my digital photos into folders, did a little "cleaning up" of a messy documents folder. Roamed around AI, MacNN, Ars, <a href="http://www.tsn.ca" target="_blank">TSN</a>. Played with the bag builder at <a href="http://www.timbuk2.com" target="_blank">Timbuk2</a>.
I got the first low batter warning at 2 hr 47 minutes, and the system finally went to sleep after EXACTLY 3 hours, right to the minute.
Not scientific, but probably pretty normal for the "internet/email/text editing" session Rob-Art Morgan talks about when he's testing his Ti Book. I left it twice, for 5 and 10 minutes. So it ran normal that first time, the second time it would have spun down the hard disk and shut off the screen after 5 minutes. A man has to pee, after all.
I don't think my energy saving measures are drastic, either. I think you're foolish to max everything out like screen brightness, keep the hard drive spinning constantly, etc, when you're trying to get a decent battery run going. It's not like I needed full processor power to do what I was doing tonight...
So I got 3 hours out of it. I have no idea how he only manages 1.5 hours with his machine. I also ran iTunes non-stop for the entire 3 hours, which is something I wouldn't always do. I'll try again another night with everything maxed right out and see what I get. I'm sure it'll be well over 2 hours though, I'm guessing 2.5 at least. My hard drive also didn't get a chance to spin down much like it would watching a DVD or something, I was moving stuff around and renaming files quite a bit in the Finder.
Oh hell, I don't know if that's good or not, but there it is.
[ 05-30-2002: Message edited by: murbot ]</p>
....Luck me I guess :cool:
do it i really don't think that you will regret it...
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