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What are other peoples experiences are with the battery life of the Apple Magic Trackpad using Ubuntu?

I think I've emptied included batteries after about two weeks usage for five days a week, eight hours a day. I don't know for sure because there's no battery level indicator, but I guess it's empty because it doesn't connect to the computer anymore.

Are there other people who use it as their main pointing device? How long do your batteries last? :-)

edit Dec. 2, 2010

Allright, now I always turn the trackpad off when not using it. The batteries lasted 5-6 weeks this way, much better than the initial two weeks.

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The included batteries lasted five weeks in my usage. The device has been on at least eight hours a day. I expect quality rechargeable batteries to last more. There seems to be no way to know if it's going into a reduced power mode when not in use, but it doesn't seem to.

If upon holding down the power button, the green light goes on, stays lit for a second and immediately goes off without blinking, that's an indication that the batteries are dead.

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There's no reason that using Ubuntu of instead Mac OS X (or Windows for that matter), should affect how long your batteries last. This is because the Magic Trackpage does not "run Ubuntu software" on the device itself.

However - two weeks seems very poor... there are people on the internet expressing dissappointment with four or six weeks. I imagine it depends on the batteries you use though.

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