I got my iBook from Amazon today, and pulled it out of the box to insure it powered on. I haven't plugged in the charger or anything, nad have had it running for the last 3 hours. The battery lights showed a full charge, but it now shows 16-56 minutes left. I'm fearful that in my calibration of my battery, I may have only started with s partial charge. Whats your experience/opinion on this. Also, this is going back in its box afterwards, until Christmas; how long should I charge it? Full, 50%, or what?


Right after posting this, the thing popped up the battery message, then went to sleep shortly after. Stupid Question, but how to I fully turn it off now?

Drain till 0% then full-charge overnight?

Roger that.




Damn, I really need to stop playing America's Army.

You played it on the iBook?

No, I've just played it so much lately that its starting to stick. Although, now thst you mention it, there IS a MAC version out... If I can run it on a 1.6 Celeron and 256 megs of RAM, then it should run nice on an iBook.

Its charging right noe, but should that little white light in front still be glaring at me?

the white light will show on the front when it's closed.

ok. I must say, that after my first 3 hours or so with OSX I'm really happy. Makes me not want to have to go back to this poor ole PC. Oh well, only 33 days until Christmas

yeh being on mac makes you think like that... it's nice

There's a thing called a manual that tells you exactly what to do when you first get your iBook.

It's a short read and evan has pictures! Yay!

You can buy them off Amazon.com? But why?

What was most amazing to me was how smooth and fast everything was with only 256 megs of RAM. I must admit, I did get impatient and d/l PearPC last week, before I knew it would ship a month early, so my expectations were set to be smashed. I tried that Nanosaur game or whatever comes pre-installed (I'd played the first on old colored iMacs at an old school and didn't like how they'd changed it from an FPS to a flyer game) and it was smooth, so I kinda have hopes I'll be able to run UT2K4, or some newer RTS' and FPS' at least.

WOW, I never had heard of this thing called a manual! You don't see me whining when someone has a easy-to-answer question!. ANd in response as to why buy from Amazon,, I got I new iBook with a 1.2 gHz G4 in it for $849 USD. Brand new. Thats why I bought Amazon. You know, its still a Mac, even it its not DIRECTLY from Apple.

He used the $150 coupon, that's why.

Well, I just DL'd UT2K4 and its AWSOME. I works great on my iBook (new stock G4). The resolution is 1024x768 and no lag.

Quick question, the dmg file is on my desktop and the UT2K4 drive is also there. Do I just keep the dmg file and run it when I want too play? Eject when I don't want to play?

Stop being a smart ass! It was a viable question.

u actually play unreal on an ibook, it runs like crap and looks even worse, well for me anyways, ill stick with it on my pc where it runs perfect and looks perfect

The DMG file is just a cd image. Keep it on your 'book if you wanna play it. Just unmount it whenever you dont need it.

Thanks Xer34....

You can also copy the contents of a dmg to your applications folder(or anywhere else you find appropriate on your HD). Then unmount the dmg (drag to the trash) and its never needeed again. So tidy.

Doubt it, Mac gaming sucks, the ports are terrible and unfinished and the graphics in the ibook is ****ty. I also own an ibook and gaming is a joke. Good machine otherwise though.

Heh Command and Conquer Generals run's like garbage.

All games work great for me...

We don't all have a dual G5 Powermac now do we?

Exactly, throw enough CPU at the problem and it soon goes away.

The fact of the matter apart from ports of OpenGL games (like UT2k4 and Quake3).. and even some of those suck, that Mac gaming sucks ass. It's buggy and incomplete. I mean for gods sake the Age of Mythology port had 'to change your language settings, set it in you Windows control panel'.. gee, I wonder how I'm gonna do that...