ATTENTION, Battery Life Info POLL.

For those of you who have march 2004 macaddict issue, go to page 64 BATTERY LIFE article.

For the rest, open Terminal and type

ioreg -l | grep -i IOBatteryInfo

This command will show the capacity of the battery and it's Amperage

Max Battery Capacity are:
5000 iBook G4
4700 PB 12
4600 PB 15
5800 PB 17

My 7 weeks iBook G4 12" shows 4574, that's 8% lose

I don't know what we can do

it saids that the max is 5000, but macaddict didn't say what % we will lose right out from Apple.

the values i posted are the max, in other words, apples prediction.

no one reachs that point.

I spent 4 hrs running my 12 ibook with airport ext at full speed non stop, and it still show 4574 all the way, the Amp was the only thing that change.

I believe that the value you got will be decrease no matter what you do.

You might what to tell apple about your battery. I think that a 10-15% loss from apple should be acceptable.


but again, if you still get at least 75% of the estimated battery life, they will not do a thing. even if ur capacity is only 70% when u got it at first