When I started checking the battery, I was reviewing e-mail, I don't think I had been on the internet, so the variation in the report threw me. Thanks for the explanation, I'm glad it's not my system, as I've had enough issues to deal with this month.
Les On Dec 29, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Michael Thurman wrote: > the ammount of time remaining can change alot depending on wha tyou are doig > at the time for example I can get 7 hours when i fire up th emac and am not > doing anything but it settles down to a reasonable 5 hours after a littl > ebit it is based on current power consumption rates and such screen > brightness makes quite a difference as does disk and optical drive use and > processor load > screen set on bright listening to a cd or dd and in a skype call and my > mattery will go down quickly an dthis will be indicated on the time left > display for me it seems to be fairly accurate if you continue to do what > you are already going with the machine at the time of your check > > On Dec 29, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > >> My hard drive needed to be replaced and now I'm using the Battery Menu to >> check battery status. When I navigate to it, hours remaining is all over >> the place. When it was fully charged, battery remaining showed at a little >> over 4 hours which I thought was quite low. Then, at 94%, that number went >> over 5 hours. Then I checked at 86% and it was showing as a little over 3 >> hours remaining. Now at 85%, the number is back over 4 hours. Is this >> specific to my machine or is this a bug in the software itself? Thanks. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
