So how healthy is your battery?

Feek · 21 Apr 2010 at 12:22

Phate said:
Errr...it works fine?

Hmm, doesn't show for me in Firefox or Safari at home on two different Macs or on IE8 on my works PC. Odd.

ps3ud0 · 21 Apr 2010 at 13:09

Feek said:
Hmm, doesn't show for me in Firefox or Safari at home on two different Macs or on IE8 on my works PC. Odd.

Me neither - but my work PC has IE6 :/...

ps3ud0 :cool:

QwaF · 21 Apr 2010 at 14:39

EdwardTeach said:
[I/MG]http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/5615/picture2yy.png[/IMG]

Does this make me the winner?

Ouch! How long does that get you?

EdwardTeach · 21 Apr 2010 at 15:15

QwaF said:
Ouch! How long does that get you?

about 10-20m minutes even using something basic like word.

Not sure what we did to it!

It has nearly always been used connected to the charger - but it has had very poor battery life for a long time.

Iirc it became obvious that it was a dud battery after the warranty expired.

I am not going to pay ~ £100 for a new battery as we rarely make use of the portability - its normally just used in the lounge.

I have already had to replace the charger as it stopped delivering power - so i would like to avoid spending too much on an ageing computer. Could a dodgy charger have damaged the battery?

sanofi · 21 Apr 2010 at 15:15

White Macbook, used mainly at the office as I use the PC at home. I keep it plugged in most of the time and when I do run it off battery, I'll drain it.

Phate · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:39

Feek said:
Hmm, doesn't show for me in Firefox or Safari at home on two different Macs or on IE8 on my works PC. Odd.

Weird, I'll turn it to a JPG later.

MaxPower · 21 Apr 2010 at 19:16

Very impressed with mine considering the age, amount of use etc.

MattMan · 23 Apr 2010 at 13:12

Humm i cycled the battery a few times and have managed to get it up from 81% to this

Whether it will stay like that, who knows...

Irish_Tom · 23 Apr 2010 at 13:35

Mines just gone to 97% from 45 cycles.

*edit* 5000 Posts! \0/

Irish_Tom · 6 May 2010 at 22:02

Oddly after 55 cycles (and 50 more posts

) my battery has gone back up to 99% health.

Phate · 6 May 2010 at 22:06

Panzerbjorn said:
Oddly after 55 cycles (and 50 more posts ) my battery has gone back up to 99% health.

lol did giggle at this post

Freakitchen · 6 May 2010 at 22:17

Not sure how accurate these things are - I've used my battery a lot less than I thought I would have though!

SS-89 · 11 May 2010 at 10:16

Edit: Nevermind found the answer on macrumors!

theheyes · 11 May 2010 at 18:13

Mine is completely brown bread. Again. I replaced my 2006 MacBook with a unibody MBP a while back so since then it's been in a box. I decided to dig it out over the weekend because it's all well and good using VMs, but I wanted some actual "bare metal" to do stuff on. How annoyed was I to find the battery just wouldn't wake up and start charging.

I'm wondering whether or not they'll just laugh if I ask for another replacement battery.

Stearsy · 11 May 2010 at 18:25

Great idea for a thread, looks like my mac batteries pretty healthy too:

Not that many cycles yet though compared to others.

Fillado · 11 May 2010 at 18:51

MacBook Core Duo (2006) but on its second battery bought in January last year. The first battery got slowly worse until it would barely last 30mins.

*Edit*

Ha my Mac is now 4 years old!

Tom84 · 11 May 2010 at 18:56

I've known for a while now that my battery aint in the best shape, it's not as bad as I was expecting though

clv101 · 4 Jun 2010 at 12:24

I've been very pleased with my MacBook's battery - it's 42 months old, has 537 cycles and last week was working perfectly with a health of 98% (4943 of 5020) and returning over 3 hours of normal use.

I hadn't used it for over a week and I guess the battery went totally flat - today it seems dead. At first the machine wouldn't even recognise it. Now it flits from (Calculating...) to (10:00) to (Not Charging). CoconutBattery originally said Current Battery Charge was 0 mAh. Over the last half hour that has climbed to 15mAh, but it's certainly not right.

Is it totally dead or will it recover after a few hours?

Is there any better option than buying a new £88 battery?

How much is a 42 month old 13" MacBook (2.0GHz C2D, 2GB, 80GB, SuperDrive) worth without a battery?

Emlyn_Dewar · 21 Sep 2010 at 13:29

BUMP!
Been playing about with this old Powerbook before I hand it to the sister for school/generic internet type stuff.
Seems fast enough with a new Tiger install on it, just waiting to upgrade the memory.

For it's age, it's not seen anything like the usage as others on here...
Battery was attrocious at first, after calibrating, seems very decent for it's age.

beermonster · 23 Sep 2010 at 11:45

Brand new ebay special battery original battery had 8% of capacity left and was pretty much useless.

Get around 3.5 hrs general usage out of this, bargain at £30