[MacsGalor]

I know that the battery issue has been beat to death but damn. I just bought a iBook for my sister (I know I'm must be insane, I don't have much money) but I wanted to calibrate the battery so I popped in a DVD. If I do this on my Powerbook I will either run out of juice before the movie is up, just make it, or have a couple minutes left. Well on the iBook I watched the movie and afterwards I still had 1.5 hours left on the battery. This is good for iBook users and I am happy for them but I paid double for my powerbook and the battery is not even close. AHHHHH

[fizzlemynizzle]

That's the unfortunate tradeoff for significantly less weight, a larger/brighter screen, more RAM and a faster CPU.

[iREZ]

PB's have short battery life because they are POWERbooks as in they are powerful and consume more power then iBooks. If you could afford to give up some "POWER" then by all means maybe the iBooks are the right 'books for you. I dont mind losing a little bit of batt life for my PB at all, although it would be nicer if it was a little longer. Oh Well.

[Spheric Harlot]

I love my Powerbook, but I do see the point:

It's kind of odd to be paying a PREMIUM for a TRADE-OFF.

But then, the Powerbooks have other features that may justify the premium (did to me).

-s*

[workerbee]

Originally posted by fizzlemynizzle:
That's the unfortunate tradeoff for significantly less weight, a larger/brighter screen, more RAM and a faster CPU.

It's mainly the unfortunate tradeoff for Apple's decision to go with significantly less powerful batteries in the 1.25 GHz 15" PB -- motivated more by thoughts of maximising gross margin than minimizing weight, IMHO.

[pete]

I have to agree that it was a bad move by apple to go with a smaller battery in the new machines than the old ones. I think it had to do with weight though..the new books are already bigger and heavier which is not the way to be going.

I still get a good 2.45 hours though and feel happy with that.

[daimoni]

Compared to my new PowerBook (15" 1.25 Ghz) my old 12" G3 iBook runs circles (or at least many minutes) around it.

That is why I'm happy I still kept it. For 'true portability' and opposed to 'pure power' I don't think any other Mac laptop has beat it.

I've read the press releases and all, but just imagine what the power consumption would be like on a G5 PowerBook.

:shudder:

[WOPR]

I know it would have increased weight, but surely they could have put bigger batteries in the 15" and especially the 17"? Surely the 17" with double the battery life would have sold even more? Maybe I'm talking nonsense!

[MacsGalor]

Originally posted by WOPR:
I know it would have increased weight, but surely they could have put bigger batteries in the 15" and especially the 17"? Surely the 17" with double the battery life would have sold even more? Maybe I'm talking nonsense!

I agree I would rather have my Powerbook be a little heavier to gain that extra battery life.

[forcelite]

Ya allot of you are right.

The problem is with the battery.
It does not even have the capacity they promise (4.6 kw/hour)

So Apple is defiantly skimping.

They could easily put a bigger one in there.

I will just get someone to repack it with higher Mah

[shabbasuraj]

iB's battery life is awesome...!!!

sux to be a PB owner...