From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.203]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDF82BC0F for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:35:09 +1000 (EST) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 76so10473rnk for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:35:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <35fb2e590410210535d788e4d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:35:03 +0100 From: Jon Masters To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <1098143379.18687.44.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII References: <20041018232004.0a9e0d5e@jack.colino.net> <1098143379.18687.44.camel@gaston> Cc: linuxppc-dev Subject: Re: PMU questions Reply-To: jonathan@jonmasters.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:49:40 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 07:20, Colin Leroy wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm at a loss with a PMU-related problem... Basically something happened > > and my iBook (G4 14") battery now thinks it can last only 30 minutes. > > It used to be 3+ hours. I don't really know what happened. > > Happens all the time on Apple laptops lately. My tipb battery is now > half of it's capacity. Browse the archives on the web, you'll see that > it's a common disease with those. I took my 667 G4 Powerbook back to the John Lewis retail outlet where I purchased it two years previously and they replaced the case (scratched paintwork), battery (didn't last very long by now), the right hinge (just in case), the DVD/CDRW drive, didn't reinstall the software as per my request, and a bunch of other fixes. Essentially it's nearly new at this point and I love it. The motto of the story is that, in the UK at least, John Lewis - http://www.johnlewis.com/ - are the place to buy Powerbooks. They're cheaper than Apple, give a two year warrenty and twice now have entertained my crazy notions of things they might want to offer me under warrenty. The other thing they did was accept a return when the first unit developed a single faulty pixel on the day I bought it - not Apple standard practice either. I'm currently thinking about getting another battery from one of those online refurb suppliers, but am completely discharging this one as part of each charge/discharge cycle. Over 4 hours of battery now with the display set on full and while doing compiles, etc. Jon.