Don’t call me foolish, but when it comes to batteries forget about. I can complain for hours about how batteries are so untrustworthy. My 3 year old PowerBook G4 12″ laptop battery is having a charge issue, its a long story of what’s going on but I have a sense of what’s wrong. The old battery that I had up till 2006, which was recalled, was good, it sometimes lasted a good five hours if I had the backlight low and nothing else on (including wireless, Bluetooth, Audio, CD/DVD, etc.). And now, the battery that I had for two years has been acting funny now for the past few months. And as you see on top, thats right, a ten hour charge, but its not actually true. The battery doesn’t want to charge when in use, including sleep mode, which results the kernal reports to the OS that it would take 10 hours (in Mac OS, the charge time length variable can’t be any higher than 10 hours). Then out of no where, the battery thinks its fully charged, and when you use 16% of power from the battery, it will lose its charge. From my knowledge, it seems to be a dead cell. At this rate, I think I’m going to need to order a new battery. Also something that I ran into last night, it seems like I can’t burn CDs with this issue. I’m getting an error that I have never ran into before, which says that there is not enough power to power the laser to write onto the CD.

May be this is a sign for a new laptop?

I am waiting for the next operating system to come next year, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, until I get a new laptop. My current laptop will become a Final Cut Pro and audio production laptop so that podcast episodes on WRAJ and Vidgle can be produced on the field, which will mostly be used for the Con Goer. I was quite surprised of how many audio and video podcasts were using my laptop model to produce the shows. However, most of the podcasts have upgraded this year to a newer Mac laptop model.