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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Personally, my most miserable experience concerning lifetime of battery was with my iPhone (1st Generation). Train ride into my headquarters is 4.5 hours. It rarely did make it...
Just browsing the web and occasionally even making a phone call...
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I agree. Apple's power claims are way off. Any timing they claim for any of their devices from computers to iPods, if you cut it in half you'll be closer to a realistic mark. I haven't seen any tests of their more recent 7+ hour claims for their newer batteries on their laptops, but I'll bet it isn't anywhere close to 7 hours. My MacBookPro of a year old vintage will generally get around 2.5 hours out of a charge if I leave the wireless and bluetooth off and use Adobe InDesign (for some reason, InDesign constantly uses about 6 or 7 percent of the CPU). If I'm not using InDesign and just writing with Pages or reading a PDF, etc., I can get about an hour more out of it. Not anywhere close to the 5+ hours they claim for this particular battery. I expect the iPad to be no different.