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

Michelle Ronn <micron@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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,
> > real world use averages around 4-5 hours.
> >
> > Your intel laptop gets nothing like the above numbers.
>
> Incorrect. Pentium M based laptops on average do very well. Doing web
> browsing, and document editing with a chat program in the background
> and Wifi on. LCD panel on as low as i can go and still see the screen.
> My Toshiba gets about four and a half hours. My PowerBook 15" 1.5GHz
> gets a little over 2 hours.

But he is not using a Pentium M, the Mayor is using a AMD Athlon 64
3200+ 2.0 GHz processor, which sucks at battery performance.
.

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