more and more bugs, I'm tired of taking my BMW class machine to the "shop" for repairs. Do they check the s*** out when they make changes? Do they make the users the lab rats before updating their own systems???

as apple is growing, they are becoming more Microsoft. Give them a couple more years to get better at goofing up s***.

Full 5 hr battery life will only be achieved in optimum conditions. If you go to the spec sheet for any Apple 'Book, there is a footnote that states that this depends of how you use your machine (from Apple.com: 7) Battery life depends on configuration and use.) If you are accessing the hard drive a lot and running the back light full and using processor hungry apps and have a cd in the drive, your battery will run out faster. Do less on your machine, have your screen turn off as often as possible and let your HD sleep occasionally your battery will last longer.

I got used to Apple introducing new bug in their updates.

I manages almost 50+ Mac (6100s to 15"LCD iMac, TiBook, iBook, and new Aluminum iBook).
Used to apply the most recent update, but in OS X, I would say 'If it aint broke, don't fix it'.

(Or, 50+ angry users will jammed my phone). :)

I was getting 2 hours max on my iBook. I reset the PMU (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449) and now I'm back to 4 hours.

Best. Technote. Ever.

Yeah I had a battery problem on my 12 inch Powerbook.

Resetting the PMU fixed it.

I did a google on "IBM THINKPAD BATTERY" and saw two sites dealing with problems out of the first 130. Hardly indicative of a big problem.

Try a search on iBook battery. Bet you get roughly the same results. Apple (like IBM) Sells hundreds of thousands of these units a quarter. Even 100 people with problems is good (It's 1% on 100,000 units)...The industry average defect ratio is like 10-20%...

I read this yesterday and smugly thought to myself, "wtf do these people do to their computers..."
Today I pulled my iBook out of my bag only to find the battery was completely dead. I had put it in the bag 12 hours earlier with 100% charge on it.
Hmmm.

Macimmortal

Please fix the issue with iPhoto 2.0 and the portables. I have a 700 mhz 14" combo and it will not even let me attempt to startup iPhoto 2.0 since I installed it.. just a you would know.. I use it on some photoshoots and now have to use the crummy camera import app. Also my software update is doa also..

I've ran Nortons, Fix permissions, etc, etc... followed some wild advice on Apple Boards... NOTHING.. been waiting for a fix.. but seems like I'm going to have to CALL.. gheez.

It all started with installing iPhoto 2.0... but it works great on my tower! (still running 10.2.2 mind you)... and bummer I just installed 10.2.4 trying to fix the others and from these posts my ibook was extremely HOT last nigh.. GHEEZZZ

FIX US APPLE..

Any suggestion?

my battery was doing this - 100% to 75% in about 10 minutes then itd shutdown. When i plugged the power in it went from 0% to 75% in about 3 minutes then to 100% in about 15. The ibook and battery were 3 months or so old.

I contacted apple and got a replacement (presumably refurb) battery which has been fine for the last month.

This may well be software related, but if your still under warranty get a replacement battery anyway, its free (or should be).

Batteries DIE!
Every charge they take reduces the capacity. I bought my TI in 2001 and the battery could hold a charge of 4,000 and now it is down to 1,200. but that's to be expected, Rechargables are NOT IMMORTAL, OK? :-)

I bought a new battery with a fresh charge capacity of 4,149, I can already see it going down in capacity to 4,139, so it's no big deal. I can watch TWO DVDs in a row on the new battery, just like I could when I first bought my TI.

to find out your capacity- go into terminal and type ioreg -l | grep Battery and it will give you all your current battery stats.

-Gordo-

"given Apple seems to own every "magazine" dedicated to their machines, I'm sure this will blow over with no problems for Apple."

uuuhhhh... what the h*** planet are you living on? you don't actually believe that, do you?

what, are you just bitter about something, so decided to just take a stab at Apple however you can?

if you have a legitimate complaint, by all means type away. but stop spreading FUD like this just because you're in a bad mood.

grow up.

Uhm...
I live on planet Apple - my house is right next to yours. No, wait... I think I'm still here on earth.
It's so sad to see people go on the attack for a computer company. I have no reason to "take a stab" at Apple.
They sold me a bum computer with a bum battery and a bad power cord. I've replaced the battery once and the power cord twice.
So Apple isn't perfect in my eyes. Throw me to the lions. And if you think you get objective "journalim" from any Apple-centric mags, you're an idiot.
Now back to planet Apple...

so what you're saying is:

BECAUSE you had a bad experience with some Apple hardware
THEREFOR they own every magazine related to them?

nice logic there, bucko.

there goes the BMW myth again...

Seeing all these problems makes me love my Pismo (the black G3 Powerbooks) even more...the batteries still get better time than is reported here and if I swap out the DVD-Rom than I can have two batteries...good for multiple DVD viewings on those long airplane rides.

The 800 Mhz iBook running 10.2.4 I have has had no battery issues to this point. There was that thing with the internal modem, but the posted fix took care of that. I did run the battey through the mill - just to see - and got what I thought to be acceptable results, though somewhat shy of Apple's claims. I ran a DVD (Lord of the Rings) from start to end and had an additional hour and 20 minutes to do some word processing (M$ Word X) and burn data to a CD. My math may be a bit off, but the DVD ran for 2hrs 45 minutes, so my total was 4 hrs and 5 minutes before the battery gave up the ghost. Having used a number of laptops of various makes and OSs, I would have to say Apple is getting it right. I use this machine to the exclusion of all others at this point. On a long flight I took recently, it was gratifing to see all those P4s make it about half the trip. I had about an hour to spare once the announcement was made to turn off our electronic devices. Perhaps this is all due to the fact this is a fairly new iBook, but all in all it this is the best perfomance I've ever had from a laptop. My only wish is that the processor was faster.

my ibook gets 4:40 sometimes my other ibook gets around 4:20 or so im not sure and i dont know why this is a problem for other people but im guessing its just a bad battery that may have been made worse by the update? these times are on reduced power with airport on and networked disks...i got a G4 that i network with so i can only guess its a battery issue not a software issue..........

I've had a battery replaced on an ibook 2002 600Mhz a month back when running 10.2.3 but I'm not sure it was a system bug.
Still 6 months old is not particularly satisfactory so I plan to get it changed again just before my warranty runs out.
Rogue

My ibook 700s battery goes to 0% from 56% so with battery it allows me to use it for amazing nearly 1,5 hours. I want my 5 hours charge back.

This happened with the combo update (10.2.0 to 10.2.4) ..

When I got my 2001 iBook 600 mhz I NEVER got cl,ose to five hours. Now I get about an hour and 10 minutes. APPLE WHAT IS THE DEAL? I don't want to get a new battery but I will have to if this keeps up!