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coconutBatteryAmbrose, my trusty Powerbook, has served me well, but he hasn't had the staying power as of late that he enjoyed when he was just a wee Powerbook. I'm lucky if I get a little over an hour worth of computing power from my current battery.

I knew that something was up with the battery and coconutBattery has proved it to me. This great freeware app gives you some useful stats about your battery, it does it well and that's all it does.

At the moment Ambrose is 19 months old, the battery has been through 285 battery loadcycles and it has half of its original battery capacity (at the moment is has a capacity of 2138 mAh, it started life capable of 4200 mAh).

Download the app and post the results in the comments of this entry and we can get a very unscientific survey of Apple's battery life.

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Patrick

Anyone find these results disturbing??? Loadcycles: 87 Age of Powerbook: 27 months Original Capacity: 4200mAh Current Capacity: 1384 mAH (32%)!!!!! 32% capacity after 87 loadcycles!?

December 10 2005 at 11:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andre

12" powerbook 1.5/ 512 / 60 HD 5400rpm the last generation in jan 2005. My battery is not so good.... Original Capacity 4400 Current Battery Capacity 4144 Current Battery charge 4096 It's was 4400 within 4 cycles, in last discharge and full charge the capacity drop to 4144... so bad. Battery-loadcycles 5 Age of Mac 8 months I'm really afraid to use my mac on battery again and the Maximum charge drop again... it's was s஥w (8 moth and 5 cycles! to get only 4144 charge!!

November 13 2005 at 2:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Robak

Loadcycles: 613 Age of Mac: 36 months Current Capacity 3372 Current Capacity 4200 80% PB Titanium 15" 867Mhz 1Gb RAM An amazing and sturdy machine still alive and kicking after everyday use (in my backpack - home to office and back) for 3 yrs now!

October 28 2005 at 9:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ralph

G3/800 iBook w/640k, now 28 months old, almost never on charge except at night, 883 cycles, now at 29% and failing fast. Looking forward to a newer higher capacity battery, I hate to be plugged in, so usually discharge down to about 5%, then hook up back to 99% or whatever. Used to get 4+ hours, now 40 mins, but think Logitech bluetooth USB wireless mouse is taking up energy. Ralph

September 08 2005 at 1:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben Chun

Current Battery Capacity: 4083 mAH (92%) Original Battery Capacity: 4400 mAH Battery Loadcycles: 73 Age: 10 months

September 02 2005 at 3:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shayne

My stats: Current battery capacity: 3717 mAh Original battery capacity: 5400 mAh Current Capacity as % of original: 68% Load cycles: 841 Age of Mac: 30 months Al PB 17", 1 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD

September 01 2005 at 7:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Conrad Quilty-Harper

Age: 34 Months Original Charge: 4400 (however it states this is just a guess) Current Charge: 4311 Charge Cycles: 318 There has to be something wrong with that. Occasionally the machine can just crap out when the battery meter reads an hour remaining. Which is a bit of a bummer.

September 01 2005 at 2:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike K

Current Battery Charge : 1520 mAh Maximum Battery Charge: 1520 mAh Current Battery Capacity: 1520mAh Original Battery Capacity: 4000mAh 38% (time to replace the battery!) Loadcycles:74 Age:49 months (wow... I forgot it was this old) Actually this iBook 400 sat dead for over a year and a half as the DC input board had gone bad, and I a couple months ago took it apart to replace it. That is a lot of screws. I don't recommend it. I think the sitting sans charge pretty much killed the battery.

August 23 2005 at 6:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
S. Tremble

Well, here is what I came up with for my iBook G4 Current Capacity Status: 81% Current Battery Capacity: 3576 mAh Original Battery Capacity: 4400 mAh Battery-Loadcycles - 106 Age of your Mac - 15 months

August 23 2005 at 1:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mr Tipples

My 15" Powerbook is 5 months old, been through 42 load cycles and has 4386mAh out of an original 4400mAh, so is still at 99% of its original capacity.

August 23 2005 at 3:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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