G4 Power Book - 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

Chris Ridd replied on :

On 22/11/04 6:05 pm, in article 1101146616.6406.0@redacted.invalid, "Tom" tomNOSPAM@redacted.invalid wrote:

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.

It sounds a little low.

Apple's got some useful battery advice here:

<http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html>

Cheers,

Chris

Patrick replied on :

On 2004-11-22, 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.

Mine lasted for two years before I had to replace it. You could try re-calibrating the battery - see: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86284

Also take a look at http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html for lots of other info. about PowerBook/iBook batteries. You can even download an iCal reminder to tell you when to charge/discharge your battery for maximum life.

P.