PowerBooks and battery life
One thing that continues to irk me about PowerBooks even in their newest incarnation is the battery meter. Never seems like it's quite right.
Take my 17-inch Powerbook G4 1.5GHz model, for example. The thing's only a couple of months old, so I know I'm not dealing with an excessively depleted battery. Yet if I run it down to scary-low limits, like around 10 percent, I'll get wildly inaccurate time remaining readings. It may tell me I have a few minutes left, and then suddenly and without warning drop into sleep mode. When I plug it back in and wake it up, the meter reads 0.
And for what it's worth, I bought a second battery for my PowerBook and it happens with both of them, so I don't think it's a battery issue.
Comments
Strange, my new 15-inch probably has the best battery meter of any PB I've ever had. Maybe it's a 17-inch problem.
My old PB was terrible.
Posted by: Jim Dalrymple | September 14, 2004 01:32 AM