About 4 months ago I put my TiBook to sleep and unplugged it as I normally do every night, but in the morning it was off not asleep.
Later that day after making the same mistake I realised the battery was dead.
Now I've been using it for the past 4 months always plugged into the mains because I kept putting off buying a new battery and decided I may as well get an iMac instead (TiBook is about 4 years old now and 800mz but still feels pretty damn smooth for its age
certainly beats my friends recent ppc mac mini) but anyway on thursday I plug it in and turn it on to be greeted with a clock has reset itself message so I open system preferences and it just freezes. Reboot try again, whenever I try to do anything it freezes.
So I restart in the darwin prompt and change the time using the date command then do a shutdown -r now. Luckily it worked fine till the next reboot and I had to repeat the process.
I noticed that the battery was now at 0%, before it read about 4% but never charged. I take it out and stick it back in and to my amazement yesterday it charged again
, the TiBook spent the night asleep running off battery and seems fine.
I love the TiBook, its looks, its keyboard (much nicer than the macbook pros slippery mess), its gorgeous hinge design, and the fact it just doesn't want to die.
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