Complete Leopard review, related links (was: MacBook Pro Battery Fried)

InfoWorld.com is the only place where you can read the complete InfoWorld Test Center review of OS X Leopard. But the review is only part of InfoWorld’s comprehensive Leopard coverage. Here is a sampling of the Leopard and Apple stories you’ll find on InfoWorld.com:

Ahead of the Curve: Leopard: A Beautiful Upgrade

Review: Santa Rosa MacBook Pro

Leopard gets UNIX 2003 certification

Leopard for developers (four parts)

Tom Yager’s Enterprise Mac blog

Tom Yager’s Ahead of the Curve blog

InfoWorld is the professional’s source for hands-on coverage of Apple products and technologies.

Some external sites that picked up InfoWorld’s Leopard review erroneously pointed to this blog post, which has nothing to do with Leopard. The blog entry that originally ran in this space follows.

That’s the final verdict on the battery saga. I get no more than an hour of battery life per charge despite installing the battery update and resetting the power controller. The notebook died on me in the middle of the WWDC keynote, sending me back to my BlackBerry for blogging. Grrrr.

I practice good battery hygiene by avoiding full charge/deep discharge cycles. I did battery update 1.2 and I’ve reset the system management controller. So you guys tell me; is this typical? I’ve never seen it in any Mac or PC notebook I’ve used, but I suppose it’s possible that I haven’t been paying close enough attentio

…as if to mock me, this MacBook Pro just dropped power with an 86% charged battery before I finished that sentence. I kid you not. That’ll teach me to run my mouth.

I’ve sent a plea for aid to my dedicated Apple Care support team (Apple PR). They’re kind of distracted at present, what with this developer conference thing. But I’m slated to review the Santa Rosa MacBook Pro, and I’d love to get that review in before WWDC closes. Wouldn’t you love to read that review as part of InfoWorld’s big blowout Apple Special Report?

Readers’ desperately affirmative responses to the preceding question are overwhelming InfoWorld’s servers, and I haven’t even posted this entry yet.

(Needling Apple PR is purely in jest. The Santa Rosa MacBook Pro will be in my hands when Apple has review units to send, and that is always soon enough.)