Matt wrote a brief update about what's been going on at $company. This passage brought a smile to my face:
[...] I'm trying to work while everyone else is answering the phone being media darlings ;-) So I've come to the kitchen area to work. I've got wireless working and the iBook means I can work for quite some time without going back for my power cable. I'm down to 17m left on the battery, so I may just have to go back to my desk now, but I've been very productive in the short time I've been away in the quiet.The Dell Laptop I bought last year might last about 90 minutes with a fully charged battery and a wireless connection. (There's a problem with the 802.11 driver; it keeps seeking on the disk every 3 seconds.) My iBook routinely gets upwards of 3:30 on a fully charged battery with a airport turned on (and judicious use of the F1 key).
This is what laptops were supposed to be about.
Now, if Apple would just bring hot swappable batteries to the iBook...
I'd probably be happy if I could just pull out the battery without the clock resetting.
My ibook is the only laptop I've owned, and I only recently started hearing that other people don't routinely get 3 hour battery life on laptops.
Re:Battery swap on iBook
ziggy on 2002-10-06T15:38:51
As I understand it, no.There used to be a hack for some of the older powerbooks (pre-G3) where you could run the powerboook while asleep off of a 9V battery for a few minutes - long enough to swap batteries.
After that, Apple started putting a capacitor on the motherboard to serve the same function. I understand it's on the Pismo and the TiBook, but not the iBook. I did switch my battery once on the iBook, and it rebooted, so I'm inclined to believe the capacitor isn't on the current batch of iBooks.
