I'm going to order a 12" powerbook soon, but am stuck on whether or not to upgrade the 60 gig HD to a 5400 80 Gig one. I know later on i'm gonna need the space. Does anybody else who has this configuration notice reduced battery life? I wonder how many hours I could expect after the upgrade. Thank you in advace. Any comments are appreciated.
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12" powerbook battery life
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I've read some posts by folks saying that they've installed even faster drives in their powerbooks and really didn't notice a huge drop in battery life, maybe 10% total.
That being said, IMO, battery life isn't great in powerbooks. I rarely can get more than 2.5-3 hours out of mine 15" AlPB. I have the 80GB 5400RPM disk in mine.
That being said, IMO, battery life isn't great in powerbooks. I rarely can get more than 2.5-3 hours out of mine 15" AlPB. I have the 80GB 5400RPM disk in mine.
Go for the upgrade. Having the extra 20 gigs of space beats the downside of a minor drop in battery life.
Romulan said:
A faster hard drive in your Powerbook should actually increase battery life.
Less seek time means less spinning.
Go for it
Go ahead and buy the pb with a bigger HD. I did, and am glad because now I have more space to put goodies on. And I still get 3+ hours of battery life.
Go ahead and buy the pb with a bigger HD. I did, and am glad because now I have more space to put goodies on.
And I still get 3+ hours of battery life.
Thanks for all of your comments-esp. Bovine (website was really helpful). I think i'm going to order the faster HD.
superbovine said:
For all wondering look at the following quote from the article.
It will only change batery life by minutes most likely.
Natalia81 said:
mine has a TOSHIBA MK4025GAS.
you change check your hard drive model in system profile utility.