Not bad... that's about how much I get when I run both of the batteries I have in my Pismo - one of them is 3 years old, the other is probably a year and a half old.
Everything I've ever seen says that discharging a battery all the way down to zero (or near-zero) can be bad for it (i.e. shorten its life due to complete draining), so this is why I try not to do that on my PowerBook's battery, which is 3 years old, and still gives me ~2hrs of life.
I constantly have it plugged into AC, with the battery in. I wonder if iBooks are different. I would imagine that the battery's life would be severely shortened if the iBook tried to keep charging it even after it had reached 100% charge. But, that doesn't explain why this problem started with the 10.2.4 update.
No offense, but your tech doesn't know what he's talking about. I have a PowerBook (Firewire) that still gets ~2hrs on its original (3-yr old) battery.
If I'm not mistaken, the battery reset utility will reset the battery to a zero charge and the computer will charge the battery up from there. I tried this months ago when the original battery with my girlfriend's iBook went from 2.5hrs to 1, but it didn't do any good for me.
My girlfriend's iBook's battery was replaced under AppleCare a few months ago due to poor battery life, and now the new battery's doing exactly the same thing it did months ago... we went from around 2:30 to 3hrs of life down to 1hr after a full charge. Argh! What the hell is wrong with these computers that cause this?!
Frustrating yes, but at least we've still got a little more time left on AppleCare. I might as well make a call for a replacement again.
Um, no. It's about convenience. Having many different songs/albums/genres/playlists at your fingertips is very convenient. I'd be willing to pay $0.99 for that convenience.
From a consumer standpoint, it'd make perfect sense, but telemarketers could claim it's unconstitutional - it would stifle free speech, and it wouldn't allow for interstate commerce.
My TurboNET adapter's on the way. I originally bought it to enable broadband guide data downloads (so I can get rid of my phone line). Looks like I have a new reason now...
I remember hearing a similar type of conversation on MSNBC. I can't remember who was being interviewed, but the anchor wanted to know the current state of affairs of NASA's space program. The interviewee responded with "well, in my book, with is being printed right now and will be available at such and such date, I detail this." I just shook my head.
This is no time to be plugging your book about the sad state of affairs over at NASA. Sheesh.
I bought a PowerBook G3/500 about 3 years ago. Since then, it's seen a lot of duty, went with me for several trips, and been upgraded to a G4 CPU. I still continue to use it daily. Compared to my girlfriend's 300MHz iBook, the PowerBook is plenty usable in OS X.
A year ago, I bought a flat panel iMac. That's another computer I use on a daily basis.
It's important to note that I don't do much gaming on these machines. Instead, I use them mostly for Web browsing, and they do an admirable job at it, especially now that Safari's available.
So, I've managed to get a lot of use out of the PowerBook, and it's 3 years old and still kicking. I plan on eventually getting rid of both the iMac and PowerBook and getting a newer PowerBook G4 Titanium.
My mother's still using a PowerMac 7600 (upgraded to 255MHz G3), running OS9, for e-mail and web browsing. She's never complained to me that it was too slow. It's no speed demon, but it's no slouch, either.
Throughout the Chimera nightly builds, I've been comparing its speed with IE by running non-scientific side-by-side browser tests. Chimera could only occasionally beat IE for loading sites like CNN, MSNBC, or Salon. Safari, on the other hand, beats IE all of the time. My test machines: PowerBook G4/500 and PC with a Celeron 400. It's sad that the Celeron used to beat the G4. It certainly isn't beating it anymore.
I have a Keyspan Digital Media Remote unit plugged into my iMac which is then hooked up to my stereo. Sounds great, and works really well. I have a learning remote with my receiver and I was able to program it with most of the functions of the Keyspan remote.
It works a lot better than using iHam on iRye to control the iMac.
The PDA market is oversaturated as it is. And regarding IR ports - why? Apple doesn't ship any computers now with IR ports. It wouldn't make sense to make a PDA with IR, if the computers also don't have IR.
Apple should focus more on the software needed to make common PDAs work well with OS X. iSync's getting there, and if Apple continues to add meaningful and useful improvements to it, it'll be a great App.
Apple should allow third-party developers to create apps for the iPod. The platform's already there - why not make it easy for developers to write software for it?
I can't wait for the little press slipups that come just hours before the keynote, like the iMac Time Canada article that got posted many hours before the keynote last year. That was truly classic. Maybe ATI will screw up again this year, or perhaps it'll be Nvidia.
I'll be checking the rumor sites as soon as I get to the hotel in San Francisco tonight. Then I'll hit the sack and be in line for the keynote no later than 5am. Woo!
Jobs himself has said on more than one occasion that Apple isn't planning on a PDA. I, for one, am glad. Their efforts should be focused more on things that integrate the Mac into someone's entertainment center. Imagine what Apple could do with the media center PC concept that Microsoft has. I just added a Keyspan Digital Media Remote to my iMac about a week ago, and I totally see now what I've been missing. Now I can control iTunes from the couch, blasting through the big stereo. In addition, if Apple added PVR functionality to OS X, they'd have a leg up on the competition.
What I'd like to see is a Firewire-based PVR with an 8" screen. Not only will it record TV, but you'll be able to watch it on the 8" screen (portably) and on the Mac and TV. It's like having a TiVo to go.
There's more that Apple can do - how about adding SPDIF and S-Video outputs to all Macs so that we can use them as our main DVD players? How about that remote control, a la MacTV?
There's so much that can be done to make a Mac truly the center of a digital lifestyle, and a PDA just isn't one of them. Apple should focus on entertainment, something they're good at, both with A/V and Photo products.
I hear ya. Macs need to support 5.1 surround sound, as well. If Apple claims CoreAudio is the shit, then the hardware needs to also be the shit, especially for the pro machines.
The earliest memory I have is of my birthday at (I think) age four. I'm twenty-four now. My dad, a timber faller, was working down in southern Oregon, and my mom, my sister, and I all went down to see him. We stayed in a little hotel, and I remember getting a Fisher Price airport set for my birthday. I can also remember my dad's truck, a 1978 F-150, blue. Of course, there are pictures of that, so it's not too difficult to forget.
The next memory I can think of is when I was five, in kindergarten. I was making some sort of picture book, where you use fingerprints to make pictures of bugs (by drawing the legs and whatnot), and then stapling the pages together. I accidently put a staple through my finger and proceeded to bleed profusely.
Oh how I wish I could remember more from my early childhood. I might look at it as being more enjoyable. That airport set wasn't too bad, though;-)
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I first read about the concept of this language in Wired 10.12. They go on in the article talking about how all life is information and how all living matter computes in some way or another.
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Critics have opposite opinions because, on the whole, the movie going public has become less and less intelligent. Dumb people like dumb movies. There are some real dumb critics out there, but I'd say most are more intelligent than your average movie watcher.
I also think that critics get more cynical as time goes on, adding to their hatred of a lot of movies.
I haven't seen Nemesis yet, but I'm holding out hope it'll be better than Insurrection. Can't be too hard, right?
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Not bad... that's about how much I get when I run both of the batteries I have in my Pismo - one of them is 3 years old, the other is probably a year and a half old.
Everything I've ever seen says that discharging a battery all the way down to zero (or near-zero) can be bad for it (i.e. shorten its life due to complete draining), so this is why I try not to do that on my PowerBook's battery, which is 3 years old, and still gives me ~2hrs of life.
I constantly have it plugged into AC, with the battery in. I wonder if iBooks are different. I would imagine that the battery's life would be severely shortened if the iBook tried to keep charging it even after it had reached 100% charge. But, that doesn't explain why this problem started with the 10.2.4 update.
No offense, but your tech doesn't know what he's talking about. I have a PowerBook (Firewire) that still gets ~2hrs on its original (3-yr old) battery.
If I'm not mistaken, the battery reset utility will reset the battery to a zero charge and the computer will charge the battery up from there. I tried this months ago when the original battery with my girlfriend's iBook went from 2.5hrs to 1, but it didn't do any good for me.
My girlfriend's iBook's battery was replaced under AppleCare a few months ago due to poor battery life, and now the new battery's doing exactly the same thing it did months ago... we went from around 2:30 to 3hrs of life down to 1hr after a full charge. Argh! What the hell is wrong with these computers that cause this?!
Frustrating yes, but at least we've still got a little more time left on AppleCare. I might as well make a call for a replacement again.
I bet it will cost a bit extra to bring John Lennon back from the dead to play Instant Karma for me.... right?
Um, no. It's about convenience. Having many different songs/albums/genres/playlists at your fingertips is very convenient. I'd be willing to pay $0.99 for that convenience.
From a consumer standpoint, it'd make perfect sense, but telemarketers could claim it's unconstitutional - it would stifle free speech, and it wouldn't allow for interstate commerce.
Heat, most likely. The 1.42GHz parts must put out too much heat for the 1U enclosure.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129912,00. html
The digital video recorder company will no longer manufacture new devices for the UK, but will continue to support existing customers.
Wow. That's absolutely bizarre. I haven't seen that at all on American TV.... it looks like EsMas pulled that off of NASA TV, too.
My TurboNET adapter's on the way. I originally bought it to enable broadband guide data downloads (so I can get rid of my phone line). Looks like I have a new reason now...
I remember hearing a similar type of conversation on MSNBC. I can't remember who was being interviewed, but the anchor wanted to know the current state of affairs of NASA's space program. The interviewee responded with "well, in my book, with is being printed right now and will be available at such and such date, I detail this." I just shook my head.
This is no time to be plugging your book about the sad state of affairs over at NASA. Sheesh.
The grammar nazi's right. There is no such word as expandible, at least according to Merriam-Webster.
I bought a PowerBook G3/500 about 3 years ago. Since then, it's seen a lot of duty, went with me for several trips, and been upgraded to a G4 CPU. I still continue to use it daily. Compared to my girlfriend's 300MHz iBook, the PowerBook is plenty usable in OS X.
A year ago, I bought a flat panel iMac. That's another computer I use on a daily basis.
It's important to note that I don't do much gaming on these machines. Instead, I use them mostly for Web browsing, and they do an admirable job at it, especially now that Safari's available.
So, I've managed to get a lot of use out of the PowerBook, and it's 3 years old and still kicking. I plan on eventually getting rid of both the iMac and PowerBook and getting a newer PowerBook G4 Titanium.
My mother's still using a PowerMac 7600 (upgraded to 255MHz G3), running OS9, for e-mail and web browsing. She's never complained to me that it was too slow. It's no speed demon, but it's no slouch, either.
Throughout the Chimera nightly builds, I've been comparing its speed with IE by running non-scientific side-by-side browser tests. Chimera could only occasionally beat IE for loading sites like CNN, MSNBC, or Salon. Safari, on the other hand, beats IE all of the time. My test machines: PowerBook G4/500 and PC with a Celeron 400. It's sad that the Celeron used to beat the G4. It certainly isn't beating it anymore.
I have a Keyspan Digital Media Remote unit plugged into my iMac which is then hooked up to my stereo. Sounds great, and works really well. I have a learning remote with my receiver and I was able to program it with most of the functions of the Keyspan remote.
It works a lot better than using iHam on iRye to control the iMac.
The PDA market is oversaturated as it is. And regarding IR ports - why? Apple doesn't ship any computers now with IR ports. It wouldn't make sense to make a PDA with IR, if the computers also don't have IR.
Apple should focus more on the software needed to make common PDAs work well with OS X. iSync's getting there, and if Apple continues to add meaningful and useful improvements to it, it'll be a great App.
Apple should allow third-party developers to create apps for the iPod. The platform's already there - why not make it easy for developers to write software for it?
I can't wait for the little press slipups that come just hours before the keynote, like the iMac Time Canada article that got posted many hours before the keynote last year. That was truly classic. Maybe ATI will screw up again this year, or perhaps it'll be Nvidia.
I'll be checking the rumor sites as soon as I get to the hotel in San Francisco tonight. Then I'll hit the sack and be in line for the keynote no later than 5am. Woo!
Jobs himself has said on more than one occasion that Apple isn't planning on a PDA. I, for one, am glad. Their efforts should be focused more on things that integrate the Mac into someone's entertainment center. Imagine what Apple could do with the media center PC concept that Microsoft has. I just added a Keyspan Digital Media Remote to my iMac about a week ago, and I totally see now what I've been missing. Now I can control iTunes from the couch, blasting through the big stereo. In addition, if Apple added PVR functionality to OS X, they'd have a leg up on the competition.
What I'd like to see is a Firewire-based PVR with an 8" screen. Not only will it record TV, but you'll be able to watch it on the 8" screen (portably) and on the Mac and TV. It's like having a TiVo to go.
There's more that Apple can do - how about adding SPDIF and S-Video outputs to all Macs so that we can use them as our main DVD players? How about that remote control, a la MacTV?
There's so much that can be done to make a Mac truly the center of a digital lifestyle, and a PDA just isn't one of them. Apple should focus on entertainment, something they're good at, both with A/V and Photo products.
I hear ya. Macs need to support 5.1 surround sound, as well. If Apple claims CoreAudio is the shit, then the hardware needs to also be the shit, especially for the pro machines.
The earliest memory I have is of my birthday at (I think) age four. I'm twenty-four now. My dad, a timber faller, was working down in southern Oregon, and my mom, my sister, and I all went down to see him. We stayed in a little hotel, and I remember getting a Fisher Price airport set for my birthday. I can also remember my dad's truck, a 1978 F-150, blue. Of course, there are pictures of that, so it's not too difficult to forget.
;-)
The next memory I can think of is when I was five, in kindergarten. I was making some sort of picture book, where you use fingerprints to make pictures of bugs (by drawing the legs and whatnot), and then stapling the pages together. I accidently put a staple through my finger and proceeded to bleed profusely.
Oh how I wish I could remember more from my early childhood. I might look at it as being more enjoyable. That airport set wasn't too bad, though
I first read about the concept of this language in Wired 10.12. They go on in the article talking about how all life is information and how all living matter computes in some way or another.
Critics have opposite opinions because, on the whole, the movie going public has become less and less intelligent. Dumb people like dumb movies. There are some real dumb critics out there, but I'd say most are more intelligent than your average movie watcher.
I also think that critics get more cynical as time goes on, adding to their hatred of a lot of movies.
I haven't seen Nemesis yet, but I'm holding out hope it'll be better than Insurrection. Can't be too hard, right?
Not a bad idea. It sounds like they have the time...