Re: What's the battery lifetime for a Mac laptop?



In article <2005123022335916807-micron@invalidnet>,
Michelle Ronn <micron@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> - the "sleep" system on the Powerbook is exceptional. I have not had it
> fail on me in a year. The system goes into a sleep state. I swap out
> the battery with a spare that is charged. The system is right as I left
> it. I can't say the same thing for the two Windows laptops I have had
> over the past 12 months.

Uhm...that's interesting, considering that Apple didn't add saving the
sleep state to disk until recently. If you have a Powerbook that is a
year old, it should only be saving to RAM. I'm surprised you have time
to swap batteries without losing anything.


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--Tim Smith
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