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

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:55:19 -0600, Wegie <here@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rlyeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >> http://www.apple.com/powerbook/specs.html
>> >> http://www.apple.com/ibook/specs.html
>> >
>> >It also depends a lot on the "charge cycles" you put that battery
>> >through. Generally Powerbooks are thought of as having better than
>> >average battery life.
>>
>> Meanwhile, back in reality, people realize that Apple gets their
>> batteries from the same places everyone else does and that they're no
>> better nor last any longer.
>>
>
>yes, but all things being equal in terms of "batteries", the MacOS and
>the Logicboard on G4's always run longer than similar spec'd Intel or
>AMD based Laptops. It's just better engineering rearing it's head again.
>Apple stuff gets about an hour extra out of the same batteries in other
>words. It's the beauty of designing the entire widget I guess.

Particularly since the Centrino arrived, and especially when comparing
like speed, that's absolutely false.
.

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