2 ibook questions

bobbo

bobbo

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I have two questions re:ibooks.

1) A friend told me the battery becomes unable to hold a charge within a year. Is this true? Is there any way to extend this period of time?

2) Are the cases supposed to be scratch-resistant? I got mine about 20 days ago and already see faint scratches, which I thought the ibook was designed to be resistant to?
 
1) this is not true. Of course, by time the battery loses it's capacity, but my 2 years old ibook still makes 3hours.
2) on the first sight, the ibook appears very less scratch-resistant. But once you use regular polishing creme (like for scratches on handy covers) you will see how easily it will look like new. I did it once to my ibook and the scratches are ALL gone.
 
I don't know the exact title, but simply go for a cell-display polish. You should get it anywhere you can find accessories for cell phones.
 
1) Batteries slowly lose capacity over time. After 3 or 4 years, its capacity will be reduced by about 30-40%. This means your run-time, which was 5 hours with a new iBook, will be reduced to 3 hours after a few years.
2) The shell is highly resistant to scratching, and what scratches it does get will be practically invisible. You can buff out nasty scratches with a little elbow grease, a good polish or plastic finisher, etc.
 
Cycle the battery and you'll get a few years out of it, otherwise it might only last a year before developing a major "memory" issue.

The case is clear with white paint on the inside. The clear part will scratch, but the finer scratches can be buffed out with a polishing compound. Find an auto-parts store that stocks professional products (KOI types, not Auto-Zones) and grab some lens polish or super fine paint polish. Check the labels to make sure the particular one you found is safe on plastics.
 
fully charge the battery, log into the single user mode (apple+s while rebooting) and let the battery drain till the last drop and turn off your book. Then charge it over the night and the battery should be almost like new. In harder cases you can reset the PMU. For further instructions check out search.
 
ok, i did that as it told me to in the manual when i first got it. good. just wondering, though, my ibook has been plugged in for a while and still says 99% as the charge level, and the indicator glows green...does it ever charge to 100%? is something wrong with mine?
 
Mine does that sometimes, other times it reads 100%. It seems like it's usually reading 99% when I've been using it for a while kinda hard, even though it's plugged in. It's done that since it was new and when I asked a guy at the local Apple Store he said it's a normal thing, so I haven't worried about it.
 
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