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

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate?
Date 2015-01-19 16:37 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <ci4q6gFu9cgU10@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2015-01-19, 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.

You're talking nonsense. I've used low self-discharge NiMH rechargeable
batteries with Apple mice, track pads, and keyboards for many years, and
have *always* waited until the battery actually died to replace/recharge
them.  I'm still using the first set of batteries from 2009 are still
going strong. I use them daily with no problems what-so-ever.

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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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