RE: Battery Life

[Tim Wood <tleathley@bigpond.com>]

Hi everyone,
just to stick my ten cents worth in.

I have a 4 year old Gateway 5150. It runs on the mains most of the time.
I leave the battery in all the time.

Yesterday, as a check against what has been said on this list, I ran it
for 50 min. It went from 100% down to 50%.

I was using a PC card modem, network card and made use of the cdrom. The
cpu runs at 100%, as I have run Setiathome for over 3 years 24/7. The
drive runs continuously too.

Must have hit a good Li-Ion :)

regards,
            Tim