battery life

I was wondering if anyone else has noticed their battery life to be shorter after installing Panther ?? I'm using an ibook G3 500 w/ 256 MB ram and I'm at 1:20-1:35 at Longuest battery life settings... Is this normal ? I used to get at least 2:00 - 2:30 on 10.1.5 ? Could a few people post...

Hey there, I've just gotten a PB12". Now: I'm used to the iBook, which I believe has a longer battery life - so that's the context I'm coming from. However - the battery life in my PB12" does seem to be quite a LOT shorter than I thought I would be. For example: I finished charging it...

Hey, (Check my signature for my setup). When I unplug my Pismo from the adapter, my percentage on the battery meter in the menubar drops about 4 percent every 10 seconds, giving me about 4 minutes of usage before it turns itself to sleep mode. When I'm plugged in, it usually says...

My iPod battery lasts for about an hour on a fully charged battery! What the hell is going on, I have only had this thing for about 5 months I used to get around 4 hours If I was lucky, why is my battery so crappy. Anyone else have this problem? What can I do?

I thought my iPod's battery was faulty, but now I've done tests and found this result: In both conditions, I charged the unit until it said "charged." Then, I started the unit playing "all songs" and also started a stopwatch simultaneously. In test #1, I turned the volume to about 75% -...

I couldn't find the thread so, I here it is.... Since loading 9.2 battery life while booted into OS 9.2 sucks. With 9.1 and earlier I was able to get about 5 hour without messing with the birghtness or anything, now I get just over 2 hours. I expect thin in OS X, but not in 9. Anyone...

Now that I am running OSX my battery life is like 2.5 hours compared to the 4 or so hours I got when just running OS9. Does anybody know how to get more life out of the battery when running OSX? Thanks Ken

Actually, I got my Update today at CompUSA in Maryland Heights (St. Louis), MO. The battery life still stinks. After the PB G3 (FireWire) is fully charged and I pull the plug, the estimated time remaining is about one hour and thirty minutes. I get 3-4 hours in OS 9.2.1.

Hey guys, please give me some pointers here. Who knows some solid tips to sqeeze everything, all the power, his whole life out of my battery ? I'm just not sattisfied with the batterylife of my iBook white dual boot. I already returned one to Apple , but got the same result with a new one...

Here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/05/15/mac_dev.html is is cool article with tips on how to find and kill un-needed processes in OSX. The result will be longer battery life and a cooler proccessor. Desktop users will also find the article helpful! -jdog

Hello, I have a PowerBook G4 and have not been able to get anywhere near the 5-hour battery life Apple advertises? Has anyone else been able to do this? Maybe they mean you can let it sleep for 5hours with our running out?:D jdog