> "if you're actually using the PowerBook, a charge won't last nearly that long. Apple claims that the battery life is 3 hours and 45 minutes for a combination of wireless Web browsing and editing a text document, but only 2 hours and 15 minutes for DVD playback."
This is actually a quote from MacWorld, which was always charitable to the platform.
In actual use as a developer doing compiles, I often got less than an hour. I was working at Apple during this time. I know.
So you’re moving from your previous statement of “you’d be lucky to get 40 minutes” to “a few hours”?
Again, I heavily used both supporting a number of daily users. I’m not saying that the situation was anywhere near acceptable by modern standards but there just wasn’t such a huge difference between platforms: nobody had hardware which would run 100% CPU for a full day but light use (web development, system administration) would get you at least half a day. The one exception to that were the PC laptops which had multiple batteries but that’s because they had 2-3x battery capacity rather than a huge disparity in processor efficiency.
> "if you're actually using the PowerBook, a charge won't last nearly that long. Apple claims that the battery life is 3 hours and 45 minutes for a combination of wireless Web browsing and editing a text document, but only 2 hours and 15 minutes for DVD playback."
This is actually a quote from MacWorld, which was always charitable to the platform.
In actual use as a developer doing compiles, I often got less than an hour. I was working at Apple during this time. I know.