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

In article <4bfcr19vg9mmp5p2oftk9ljf99pkvpl3u0@xxxxxxx>,
Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rlyeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >show where Apple has posted "real world" battery performance. you never
> >showed anything of the sort. Apple has 5-6 hours for current models,
>
> Actually its 5.5 hours and you'll only get anything close to that if
> you turn it on and do nothing with it.
>
> >real world use averages around 4-5 hours.
>
> Not even close.

You don't even own a PB, you have no clue.

> >Your intel laptop gets nothing like the above numbers.
>
> My HP zv6000 gets ~4 hours for working with Excel and Word or Web
> browsing and ~2 hours if its hitting the HD or DVD drive.

***, that's really lousy battery time.

> Get over it, Oxford. Apple's nothing special on battery life.

When compared to your crappy laptop, it's not only special, it's
amazing.



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