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Battery life of x60s under 10.4.8
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:54 am
by tyanlion
Hi,
Could anyone pls tell me what is your battery life like under real 10.4.8 (not the 10.4.4)?
btw pls state your battery type
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:46 am
by pdudas
I had about 3.5 hour working time on my x60 with 8 cell battery.
OS X has a very bad power management. I had to set minimum speed in bios, then it worked for 5 hours.
I had 10.4.8 but the speedstep not worked. My fan runs on maximum speed, and it blowed out a cold air. There was no task runnig with high demand.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:54 am
by tyanlion
Thanks for answering. Did you manage to find out why your speed step was not working?
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:14 pm
by thibouille27
pdudas wrote:I had about 3.5 hour working time on my x60 with 8 cell battery.
OS X has a very bad power management. I had to set minimum speed in bios, then it worked for 5 hours.
I had 10.4.8 but the speedstep not worked. My fan runs on maximum speed, and it blowed out a cold air. There was no task runnig with high demand.
Found the same... 3.5-4 hours with 8 cells battery.
Speedstep doesn't work simply because not supported hardware.
You can't get everything, can you?
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:47 pm
by tyanlion
how about this
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php? ... tep&st=160
they have tried to get speed step working anyone has tried this out yet?