Am I having battery problems.

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Dick Sidbury - 15 Nov 2005 05:35 GMT

I just got a new Powerbook G4 17" about a week and a half ago. I'm new
to mac but I thought I understood sleep. I brought it to my office this
morning at about 9 with a (relatively) full charge and turned it on. I
had left my charger at home and the one at the office was on loan to a
friend. Anyhow because of this I only used the system about 15 minutes
the whole day. At 9:30 when I got ready to leave this evening, the
battery had 2% life left. I was under the impression that if I didn;t
do anything that it would automatically sleep and this would allow me to
leave it turned on for several weeks with no appreciable battery drain.

Am I misinformed? or did I accidentally set something wrong in
configuring the system?

Thanks

dick

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pailface88@yahoo.com - 15 Nov 2005 11:28 GMT

I was under the impression that if I didn;t

> do anything that it would automatically sleep and this would allow me to
> leave it turned on for several weeks with no appreciable battery drain.
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> dick

It depends on what the value is set at in the Energy Saver Preferences
Pane. You can set how long it waits till it goes to Sleep both when
using the power supply and when running on battery only.

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Doug Day - 25 Nov 2005 16:30 GMT

On 11/15/05 6:28 AM, in article
1132054093.158545.250280@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,

> I was under the impression that if I didn;t
>> do anything that it would automatically sleep and this would allow me to
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> Pane. You can set how long it waits till it goes to Sleep both when
> using the power supply and when running on battery only.

Do you have a wireless card? Could it be active periodically even if asleep?
If so that would of course consume battery.

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Richard Tomkins - 17 Nov 2005 02:16 GMT

McAfee AV prevents the power system from sleeping properly. It used to keep
my system on all the time. I trashed McAfee and have no sleeping problems.

rtt

> I just got a new Powerbook G4 17" about a week and a half ago. I'm new
> to mac but I thought I understood sleep. I brought it to my office this
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>
> dick

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