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> Just how accurate are these figures, my impression, not carefully verified, > is that a battery left outside the machine gives a pessimisic reading when > first loaded back in, and in paticular, it seems that even if such a battery > indicates say 70%, it takes only a very short time for it to be reading 95% > again if the machine is plugged in. I leave the monitor up all the time while under OS/2. It seems to use past discharges and current usage to determine the time remaining (if I go off a ramdisk for a while, the time remaining meter will increase accordingly, and rather accurately from my experience). The percentage remaining figure seems very accurate in my 750, with two exceptions. When I first got the computer, it reported I had 25% battery remaining just minutes before it died, which I chalked up to the battery not having been cycled (An interesting side note is that my initial battery life was around 4 hours, and 25% remaining would've projected out to 5+ hours). This problem disappeared after I cycled the battery a few times. The second time was when I got my 8MB upgrade. It took a couple of cycles before it corrected the time remaining figure, but for a couple dozen cycles the computer reported about 5% battery left when it went into failsafe suspend (the time remaining did correctly read 0:00 for a few minutes to up to a half hour before this point). I got tired of the inconsistency so I drained the battery overnight (left computer in suspend mode until all the lights went out), turned the battery off and let it sit overnight again, then turned it on and charged it again. It's been very accurate ever since. All in all, I've been very pleased with the battery and monitor considering some of the horror stories I've heard from people with other laptops. Now I find out maybe I just got lucky?