short battery life in iBook

[Uli Wienands]

Battery life in my wife's 1-year-old iBook has reached 15 min for a full
charge. It starts at 100%, will go down slowly first & then suddenly fall
to 0.

In my own Pb 520 this indicates corruption of some values in the
"intelligent" batteries. I can run various utilities to get the battery
back to normal. Are there any such utilities for the iBook?? I am thinking
the likes of LindBU500, Emmpathy 2.1 or even Apple's Battery recondition.

Uli

[matt neuburg]

In <uli-1108032333550001@pepii-wienands2.slac.stanford.edu> Uli Wienands
wrote:

> Battery life in my wife's 1-year-old iBook has reached 15 min for a
> full charge. It starts at 100%, will go down slowly first & then
> suddenly fall to 0.

Check the archives (and MacFixIt), as this has been much discussed. Some
say that nvram reset can help. m.

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