I'm trying to figure out why my almost new powerbook (15 ", 1.67 GHz, 2
GB RAM) has such terrible battery life. I think a fully charged battery
only lasts about an hour. I've tried two new batteries and both seem to
last about that long. I don't think it did this when it was brand new,
but I'm not sure.
Anyway, I was thinking that there might be some unusual hidden process
or program running the background that is sucking up cycles and
battery. I'm particularly suspicious of Spotlight, which I absolutely
detest. If I run top -u in a Terminal, I see that the TruBlueEnv is the
big system hog, sometimes using up to 60% or so of the cpu. Even if
there are not any programs running. Is that normal? Could I have some
goofy system maintenence program wasting my cpu cycles? I guess I do
have a anti-virus program