G4 Power Book - 1.g Ghz - Battery life?

Anyone know if i should be getting better battery life than that? Its about 7 months old so i don't think the battery should be suffering yet.
Tom wrote on :

Hi

G4 15inch power book 1.5 Ghz 512Meg RAM

Getting the battery to last about 2 hours max at the moment - Just running normal desktop type stuff - nothing I/O or CPU intensive.

Anyone know if i should be getting better battery life than that? Its about 7 months old so i don't think the battery should be suffering yet.

thanks

Thomas Reed replied on :

In article 1101133149.97530.0@redacted.invalid, Tom tomNOSPAM@redacted.invalid wrote:

Getting the battery to last about 2 hours max at the moment - Just running normal desktop type stuff - nothing I/O or CPU intensive.

Anyone know if i should be getting better battery life than that?

Depends on what you're doing. Is the screen at max brightness? If so, turn it down some. Do you have AirPort and/or BlueTooth enabled? Disable them. (A custom location named something like "Battery Saver" helps with this, so you can turn them back on easily when necessary.) Do you have the Processor Performance setting in the Energy Saver settings set to Highest? If you're not doing anything CPU intensive, you can set it to Reduced to save power.

Acid Pooh replied on :

"Tom" tomNOSPAM@redacted.invalid wrote in message news:1101133149.97530.0@redacted.invalid...

Hi

G4 15inch power book 1.5 Ghz 512Meg RAM

Getting the battery to last about 2 hours max at the moment - Just running normal desktop type stuff - nothing I/O or CPU intensive.

Anyone know if i should be getting better battery life than that? Its about 7 months old so i don't think the battery should be suffering yet.

thanks

My 10 month old 1GHz 12 inch AlBook is giving me less than half an hour per charge. Sounds like your battery is going too.

'cid 'ooh