In article slrnat319v.49.fafa@redacted.invalid, User & fafa@redacted.invalid wrote:
In article d0e71a7d.0211120555.2af5fe3@redacted.invalid, AlanU wrote:
Is there a UNIX command which returns information about the battery status of a powerbook running OS X?
This would form a useful starting point for a program that automatically dims the screen when the computer is running on batteries. given the relatively poor battery life on OS X this might be of interest to others as well as myself.
Thanks
Seeing that it is based on FreeBSD 4.4, the command apm might work. I haven't used OSX yet (867MHz PB on backorder...) so I can't tell if it is installed by default. If not, you might be able to install it your- self. Good luck.
Check this website for a unix script to check battery status on Mac OS X :- http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030311220217671&query=batt ery
Alternately you can download an app call XBattery from http://www.kezer.net/xbattery.html
Hope this help
In article thomas-A16D78.12221911072003@redacted.invalid, Thomas Chai thomas@redacted.invalid wrote:
In article slrnat319v.49.fafa@redacted.invalid, User & fafa@redacted.invalid wrote:
In article d0e71a7d.0211120555.2af5fe3@redacted.invalid, AlanU wrote:
Is there a UNIX command which returns information about the battery status of a powerbook running OS X?
This would form a useful starting point for a program that automatically dims the screen when the computer is running on batteries. given the relatively poor battery life on OS X this might be of interest to others as well as myself.
Thanks I didn't see the original post in the thread, so please excuse my jumping in late.
I recently bought a new battery for my Pismo (400MHz, 20GB, 392MB RAM, OS X 10.2.6) and have found battery life to be as good as when I originally got it (400MHz, 6GB, 128MB RAM, OS 9.1). With my new battery (same capacity as the original), I get around 4 or 4.5 hours of use out of it, without using any particularly draconian energy-management techniques. This is just my experience, but it appears that the latest versions of OS X are really quite good at power conservation.
That said, an automatic screen-dimming app is interesting. It would be more useful for me if my screen were bright enough to warrant dimming the screen...