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Re: MacGroup: laptop batteries

On Jan 18, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:

I'm wondering what I could have done to make the battery last longer.
Whenever in reach of a socket [and without a need to power up the
battery], should I have been using my laptop without a battery?

The batteries in most laptops have a finite life, and their clocks start ticking as soon as they leave the assembly line. They die after a few years, and the only cure is replacement. You can try things like resetting the power manager and open firmware.

Here are a couple of Apple's tech pages that you might find useful.

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42642>

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449>





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