It is in the status menu. VO keys + M twice to get to the menu. Then navigate through it the same way you do in program menus.
On Aug 12, 2011, at 5:53 PM, John Chilelli wrote: > Hi folks, > > Someone please tell me what the command is for me to hear what the battery > level is at currently on my 13" MBP? > > Thanks all, > > Johnny > > > On Jul 24, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Shen wrote: > >> OK, before any of you are a bit trigger happy with the reply button, let me >> preface this message by saying that I understand battery life is not >> something that is easy to calculate. Each minute your MacBook can be doing >> different things and the power draw from the battery is not consistent. >> >> Having said that, I am somewhat convinced the battery life for my MacBook >> using Lion is now somewhat less than when I had Snow Leopard. I cannot prove >> it of course with easily reproduced steps. But at the moment, as I am >> writing this email, my battery status says 20-percent, an hour and 18 >> minutes remaining. >> If we calculate this up to 100-percent, we know this battery will last 390 >> minutes. >> I of course don't know what the battery life would calculate to be if >> everything is the same, and I am writing this email under SL instead of Lion. >> But what I do know is that under SL, my battery can give me 10 plus hours of >> nonstop usage. >> This is doing anything but running Safari. I have mid-2010 MacBook Pro. >> Again, I am not saying the battery life is definitely less, but it certainly >> feels that way. Especially when my laptop seems to run a little more warm >> than it has been in the past. >> >> I am not seeking any answers. I just want to bring this to your attention so >> you can be aware of your MacBook's battery life under Lion. >> I imagine this has a lot to do with what some people are saying about the >> Spotlight. Lion probably has a new way of indexing the files in your system >> and is caching it more actively than SL. I am not in panic mode yet. I am >> quite sure Apple will come out with an update to improve the battery life. >> For the meantime, I cannot expect the 10-hours of battery life I had before >> running SL. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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. > Kristyn Leigh Sent from my mini Mac krist...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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.
