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Re: Battery Life



> To get accurate battery estimates you need to monitor the life of the battery 
> as it fully discharges.  I think that the software on some handheld devices 
> does this, but APM on Linux doesn't.

Consider battery-stats, he package collects statistics about the (lack of)
charge on laptop batteries.  It also contains a simple graph utility to show
the battery charge over time or detect a misbehaviour of the battery which
might announce a comming end of batterylife.

http://karl.jorgensen.com/battery-stats/

	Werner

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