Tumbleweed Rants Stefano's World http://tumbleweed.org.za/node/76/atom/feed 2008-01-02T20:10:49+00:00 Laptop battery woes http://tumbleweed.org.za/2007/06/04/laptop-battery-woes 2007-06-04T13:42:17+00:00 2008-01-02T20:10:49+00:00 tumbleweed My Acer Ferrari 4005’s battery is on it’s way out. From around 3hrs when new, it’s down to 20 mins, at the lowest screen brightness.

I’m even getting error messages from gnome-power-manager, telling me it doesn’t even think my battery’s capacity is valid :-)

Gnome-Power-Manager message telling me my battery is not valid :-)

/me is getting tempted to replace it with a MacBook (but don’t tell it that)

]]> My Acer Ferrari 4005’s battery is on it’s way out. From around 3hrs when new, it’s down to 20 mins, at the lowest screen brightness.

I’m even getting error messages from gnome-power-manager, telling me it doesn’t even think my battery’s capacity is valid :-)

Gnome-Power-Manager message telling me my battery is not valid :-)

/me is getting tempted to replace it with a MacBook (but don’t tell it that)

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