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Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate?

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate?
Date 2015-01-20 09:15 +1300
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <200120150915544181%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References (3 earlier) <ci24i1F9ijaU2@mid.individual.net> <1lygt5i.182jdaaodcvq9N%nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk> <ci2tg7Fg7h9U3@mid.individual.net> <180120151832150794%nospam@nospam.invalid> <1lyi08q.1y7cqcakl9csyN%nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk>

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In article <1lyi08q.1y7cqcakl9csyN%nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk>, Niels
Jørgen Kruse <nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk> wrote:
> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> > In article <ci2tg7Fg7h9U3@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
> > <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > And I don't see how
> > > this has much to do with Mac OS X's battery level indicator anyway.
> > it doesn't.
> 
> I am saying that it is not worth the risk to disregard the low battery
> warning.
> 
> In my experience, with well matched rechargeable batteries, the battery
> indicator is dropping so quickly at that point that there is little to
> be gained anyway.
> 
> If you are happy to kill rechargeable batteries early, go ahead.

Battery level indicators are vague guesses at the best of times. They
can also easily be fooled by simple problems such as dirty contacts.

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Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-17 12:52 -0800
  Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-17 21:50 +0000
    Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-17 17:55 -0800
      Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-18 16:14 +0000
    Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-01-18 09:30 +0100
      Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-18 16:16 +0000
        Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-01-18 22:03 +0100
          Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-18 16:04 -0500
          Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-18 23:21 +0000
            Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-18 18:32 -0500
              Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-01-19 13:37 +0100
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-19 16:37 +0000
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-01-19 21:37 +0100
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-19 16:06 -0500
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-01-20 13:16 +0100
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-20 16:52 -0500
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-21 06:16 +0000
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-20 09:15 +1300
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-19 16:06 -0500
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-19 21:03 +0000
  Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> - 2015-01-18 09:33 -0500
    Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-19 09:03 +1300
    Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-01-18 14:07 -0700
  Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? David Fritzinger <email@domain.com> - 2015-01-26 10:46 -0500
    Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-01-26 08:00 -0800

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