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Hey everyone, this is my first post on these forums, and I'm hoping you could help me. I searched for an existing post relating to this, but couldn't find anything.
I currently have a 13-inch iBook G4 that I purchased in 2005. Since then I've worked two contracts aboard cruise ships as an entertainer - 2 months in 2007, and 4 months in 2009. The voltage on the outlets aboard the ship is 110 v AC. Thing is, I'm worried that the electricity on the ship prematurely killed my laptop battery. After the first contract my laptop went from about 3 hours of battery life to less than 1 hour. By the time I bought a replacement battery in early 2009, I was getting 30 mins.
The replacement battery was new - I was getting 4 hours+ battery life. After I got back from the ship in 2009, that went down to less than an hour. Currently I'm lucky to get 30 minutes.
I ask about the voltage on the ship because, even though it was 110 v AC, it was pretty screwy. If I plugged in a digital alarm clock, it would be running an hour fast within a day. I've heard other performers complain about the ship's electricity being hard on laptops, but never had anything confirmed.
I'm preparing to buy a new Macbook at Christmas. I'm also considering doing another cruise ship contract in 2011. My worry is that I'll kill that battery as well. Is there anything I can do to prevent this? Do I need some kind of voltage converter? Is it perhaps not even the ship that was doing this to my laptop?
Any help on this would be hugely appreciated. I know this is a weirdly specific question, but I've had no luck with this elsewhere. Cheers!
I currently have a 13-inch iBook G4 that I purchased in 2005. Since then I've worked two contracts aboard cruise ships as an entertainer - 2 months in 2007, and 4 months in 2009. The voltage on the outlets aboard the ship is 110 v AC. Thing is, I'm worried that the electricity on the ship prematurely killed my laptop battery. After the first contract my laptop went from about 3 hours of battery life to less than 1 hour. By the time I bought a replacement battery in early 2009, I was getting 30 mins.
The replacement battery was new - I was getting 4 hours+ battery life. After I got back from the ship in 2009, that went down to less than an hour. Currently I'm lucky to get 30 minutes.
I ask about the voltage on the ship because, even though it was 110 v AC, it was pretty screwy. If I plugged in a digital alarm clock, it would be running an hour fast within a day. I've heard other performers complain about the ship's electricity being hard on laptops, but never had anything confirmed.
I'm preparing to buy a new Macbook at Christmas. I'm also considering doing another cruise ship contract in 2011. My worry is that I'll kill that battery as well. Is there anything I can do to prevent this? Do I need some kind of voltage converter? Is it perhaps not even the ship that was doing this to my laptop?
Any help on this would be hugely appreciated. I know this is a weirdly specific question, but I've had no luck with this elsewhere. Cheers!