Battery Life and Leopard

On 2008-01-10 14:09:50 +0100, Gregory Weston said:

> In article ,
> JackSlash <usenet brightfire eu> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a drop in battery life
>> with leopard installed. I have an original core duo macbook so the
>> battery is aging anyway and im wondering if im imagining a sudden drop
>> in life after installing leopard or wether the battery is just on its
>> way out.
>
> Probably a bit of both. At over a year old, your battery is likely
> showing some significant degradation, but Leopard does impose a heavier
> load so you're probably draining your diminished capacity faster than
> you were.

i have leopard on latest gen mbp, relatively new battery on it too...
and i don't see any shortening in battery life.. ok, maybe just a
little, but not so much...
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On 2008-01-22 08:08:36 +0000, Franjo Žilić said:

> On 2008-01-10 14:09:50 +0100, Gregory Weston said:
>
>> In article ,
>> JackSlash <usenet brightfire eu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a drop in battery life
>>> with leopard installed. I have an original core duo macbook so the
>>> battery is aging anyway and im wondering if im imagining a sudden drop
>>> in life after installing leopard or wether the battery is just on its
>>> way out.
>>
>> Probably a bit of both. At over a year old, your battery is likely
>> showing some significant degradation, but Leopard does impose a heavier
>> load so you're probably draining your diminished capacity faster than
>> you were.
>
> i have leopard on latest gen mbp, relatively new battery on it too...
> and i don't see any shortening in battery life.. ok, maybe just a
> little, but not so much...

Oh well. I keep checking my battery with coconut battery and its
capacity is rapidly diminishing. It seems the battery getting old just
co-incided with leopard. Thanks anyway for both your inputs.

J
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In article , JackSlash wrote:

> On 2008-01-22 08:08:36 +0000, Franjo Žilić said:
>
> > On 2008-01-10 14:09:50 +0100, Gregory Weston said:
> >
> >> In article ,
> >> JackSlash <usenet brightfire eu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a drop in battery life
> >>> with leopard installed. I have an original core duo macbook so the
> >>> battery is aging anyway and im wondering if im imagining a sudden drop
> >>> in life after installing leopard or wether the battery is just on its
> >>> way out.
> >>
> >> Probably a bit of both. At over a year old, your battery is likely
> >> showing some significant degradation, but Leopard does impose a heavier
> >> load so you're probably draining your diminished capacity faster than
> >> you were.
> >
> > i have leopard on latest gen mbp, relatively new battery on it too...
> > and i don't see any shortening in battery life.. ok, maybe just a
> > little, but not so much...
>
> Oh well. I keep checking my battery with coconut battery and its
> capacity is rapidly diminishing. It seems the battery getting old just
> co-incided with leopard. Thanks anyway for both your inputs.

On a MacBook? Depending on how bad the battery is, Apple might give you
a new one, even if you're out of warranty. See
<http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/> for
details. They've replaced both of my MacBook Pro batteries this month
under this program. In both cases it was the "low charge
capacity/runtime... with battery cycle count of less than 300."

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
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