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Originally Posted by BonnyW
Laptop batteries only last a couple of years....they simply cease to charge after a while. They last even less time (a couple of months) when exposed to heat.
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Yeah this one hasn't been used so much and was new as of this past March, and also lasts well enough when in use continually...
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Originally Posted by Jacko
If you have "Hibernate Enabled" in the Power section of Control Panel, then you should hibernate which is the lowest power usage setting as far as I know. If you are seeing these messages, the I assume you have hibernate enabled...I got nothing else...sorry....good luck!
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Not trying to make this sound overly pejorative from my admittedly Mac user POV, but just wondering why the system wouldn't just automatically go into the lowest power sleep/hibernate/whatever you call it mode when not in use for hours and hours or even days, most especially when physically closed, you know (since obviously somebody is not coming right back then). Got an iBook that's 2-3 years old whose battery doesn't work for very long any more while in use (just as Bonny is indicating above), and yet I can close it and leave it overnight and come back the next day and it will wake up, meaning it obviously went into the lowest power mode. I can see the reason for a control
not to send the system into the lowest power mode for times when you may be coming back to work, but I can't see the reasoning behind the system
not going into the lowest power mode
even after several hours of non-use and when it's been closed, to boot.
Anyway, thanks, I'll look for the hibernate settings and see if that changes things.
Steve