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Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh God.
Oh God.
I love my Powerbook G4 so much. I squeeze it and love it. I saved it from the very jaws of death, buying it just before the line was ended - so, it's a 1.5GHz G4 PowerPC processor, into which I put an extra gigabyte of RAM to make 1.256 gigs.
Because I love it. Despite its puny hard drive and increasingly antiquated processor.
Tempted by the charms of the new line, I resisted fiercely, even when I had the opportunity to save many, many magical pounds. Upon my return from temptation, though, my love knew that I had been gazing at another.
It sickens.
It sickens.
Specifically, it is taking ages to charge, and battery life is surprisingly short - although the numbers given are erratic and variable. Worse yet, when it thinks it has about twenty minutes of life left, it suddenly shuts off cold - no shutdown - and when restarted thinks the date is 1 January 1970.
If this were a PC, I would be thinking it was the CMOS battery, but I don't even know if 12" G4 PowerBooks _have_ CMOS batteries in the way I understand them. I have reverted the PMU, or at least have tried to, and that should also have cleared out the NVRAM. Then again, possibly that did not happen successfully. Either way, it hasn't worked. Same problems persist, which is no problem as long as it is plugged in, but rather giddy if it isn't.
On the positive side, it may just be the main battery - iStat pro has its health down to 54%, but it is dropping _so_ precipitously that I don't quite believe it can be accurate. Main batteries are relatively easy to replace, but my experience so far has been that one is at best briefly prolonging the life of a device on the out. But I love it so much. |
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