folding and my computer...

i have an ibook and i started folding last spring...i enjoyed folding although i didn't get a whole lot done, i liked being involved though and i think its a great thing to do...however

after i had been folding for some time my computer's battery pretty much died. it would freak out and go to sleep at like 80% then it would say it was at 0% if i tryed to wake it up. i got a new battery under 1 year warranty and now its been working fine. i was curious if it died cause i was folding on it almost constantly. i would usually turn folding off if i unplugged my ibook however there were a few times when folding ran while i was on battery power. anyway when i joined macrumors folding initally we were pumping out a measly 2000 points a week and now its gotten ridiculous. i would like to join back up but i fear my battery will die again and i don't have apple care so it would come out of my pocket to replace....

what do you think?

Originally posted by bertinman
I think you should be fine.

I doubt that the folding killed your battery, it was most likely defective.

I don't fold on my laptop while it is unplugged because otherwise it would run out too soon (but not any faster than if I was running any other apps at 100% cpu usage!).

I suggest using mc68k's scripts to start and stop it when you are switching back and forth.

(note to mc68k: think you could make a version of the script that doesn't have the -advmethods tag? that way the G3's won't get gromacs as often -- I think)

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huh? his script will stop and start it when you switch from battery to power?? sheesh it has come a long way since i last used it if that is the case