Official Battery Health Thread

[Fazzl]

MBP 2.2GHZ
Age: 1 Week
Health: 98%
Cycles: 3

[balofagus]

14" iBook (Last revision)
Age: 19 months
Health: 56 % :(
Cycles: 293

Good thing my new MacBook Pro should be here Wednesday.

[Akira1980]

MBP 2.4GHZ
Age: 2 months
Health: 97%
Cycles: 19

[flopticalcube]

MB 2.0
Age: 8 months
Health: 97%
Cycles: 26

[Cybergypsy]

MBP 2.4
1 week
9 cycles
98% batt Life

[jczubach]

age:5mo.s

[vicious7]

Age: one month

[triddent222]

macbook pro 2.2ghz

Age: 7 weeks. (I've only had it for 3 though, it came with 4 weeks on it, is that normal?)
Health: 98% (5431/5500 mAh)
Cycles: 9.

[feelthefire]

Age: almost 4 weeks
Health: 100%
Cycles: 9

[aethelbert]

Macbook 2.16
Age: 8 weeks
Cycles: 21
Capacity: 100%

[nre999]

Age: 6-7 weeks (can't remember)
Cycles: 26
Health: 96%


But the health was at 98% when I got it - so who knows

[aquajet]

MBP 2.0ghz Core Duo
Age: 18 months (purchased refurbished 11/2006)
Health: 86%
Cycles: 212 (0 when purchased)

[creator2456]

17" MBP 2.16GHz
Age: MBP 14 Months / Batt. 4 Months (replaced under APP)
Cycles: 11
Max mAh = 6492 (lowest has been 6375mAh)
Original mAh = 5500
Health = 100%

The battery will get used a lot more now that school is starting again.

[PURCELL429]

2.2 15"
3 months old
81 cycles
96% health

[Helfeather]

I only got my Mac about a couple weeks ago um...

Sorry to sound kinda noobish, but how do you check this? >_>

[nick123]

MBP 2.2
1 week
1 cycle
99% health

[ZachPruckowski]

I use iStat Pro to check. I'm sure there's a native way to check as well.

iBook 1.33 GHz 14"
26 months
258 cycles
Battery Health: 38% :(

It also shuts down randomly while on battery. Stupid people at the school who I have the warranty through refuse to replace it. Saving up for a Macbook.

[KristieMac]

Nearly 2 months
30 cycles
97%

[X5-452]

WhiteBook
14 months old
196 cycles
97% health

[elcid]

5 months
107 cycles
100%

I guess factory for MB is 5200, Im at 5500. Yay I guess.

[nightelf]

MBP SR 2.2 GHz

Age: 3 weeks
Cycles: 12
Health: 97%

[rosh325]

15" 2.2ghz c2d mbp

Age:2 mo (though coconutBattery says 3 mo, how odd)
Cycles:24
Health:99%

Current Battery Capacity: 5494
Original Batter Capacity: 5500

[Samwise592]

Age: 4 months
Cycles: 20
Capacity: 98% (5127mAh)

[pdra05]

MBP 2.4GHZ
Age: 6 Week
Health: 97% (3% gone already!?)
Cycles: 5

[polycat33]

MBP 2.2 Ghz
Age: 2 months
Health: 97%
Cycles: 44

[sup007]

Macbook 2.0Ghz
4 months
88% health
161 cycles

[peter202]

MB 2.0Ghz
Age: 8 Months
Health: 96% according to iStat pro, 92% with coconutBattery
Cycles: 196

[daneoni]

Looks good

[amusiccale]

MBP 2.2

Age: 3 Months
Health: 100% (5514 mAh)
Cycles: 16

[nateDEEZY]

MBP 2.4

Age: 3 Months
Health: 100% (5528 mAh)
Cycles: 26

[jczubach]

MBP 2.4

Age: 3 Months
Health: 100% (5528 mAh)
Cycles: 26

What're you feeding that battery to be at 100% health after 26 cycles?:eek:

[Golden Master]

MBP 2.16

Age: 10 months
Cycles: 61
Health: 66%

[XheartcoreboyX]

i have a 2.4ghz MBP got it before 22days :rolleyes:

[turnstylez18]

MB 2.0

Age: 1 month
Cycles: 25
Health: 100%

[kerotab]

MB 2.0

Age: Coconut Battery says 7 months but I bought it NEW in April (4 months ago).
Health: 99%
Cycles: 80

[sam10685]

WhiteBook
14 months old
196 cycles
97% health

I think I'll get a Whitebook...
Powerbook G4
Health: 78%
Cycles: 160

[sam10685]

Looks good

What model?

[nuccadoc]

MBP 2.4
2 GB Ram

[kuebby]

MBP 2.0
Cycles: 222
Health: 52%

Bought it used and the battery certainly was.

[PizzaMoon]

MBP 2.4GHz
Age: 2 months
Health: 97%
Cycles: 37

[Marley]

Blackbook 2.16
Age: 1 Month
Cycles: 14
Health: 100%

[nateDEEZY]

What're you feeding that battery to be at 100% health after 26 cycles?:eek:

http://www.apple.com/au/batteries/notebooks.html

Standard Maintenance
For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time. An ideal use would be a commuter who uses her MacBook Pro on the train, then plugs it in at the office to charge. This keeps the battery juices flowing. If on the other hand, you use a desktop computer at work, and save a notebook for infrequent travel, Apple recommends charging and discharging its battery at least once per month. Need a reminder? Add an event to your desktop’s iCal.

[sr5878]

MBP 2.4
2 GB Ram
http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=83009&stc=1&d=1187749717

6000 mah battery???? :eek:

[paddy]

MB 2.16
Age 3 months
Cycles 76
Capacity 92%.

Not too bad I suppose.

Edit: It's since jumped back up to 100% according to iStat and CoconutBattery, weird but I'm not complaining!

[phatphil]

MB 1.83 Core 2 Duo
Age: 9 months
Cycles: 406
Capacity: 92%

Guess I'm the only one that likes to run on battery. :eek:

[Fleetwood Mac]

MB 2.0 C2D
Age: 6 months
Cycles: 56
Health: 100%

MB 1.83 C2D
Age: 2 months
Cycles: 7
Health: 97%

[Cybergypsy]

tried to cal. the batt. and still at 98%

[dollystereo]

MBP CD 2.0GHZ 18 month old (first macbook pro, week 14)
Battery 1
Health 90%
Cycles 67

Battery 2
Health 97%
Cycles 46

[oldtime]

2.0 ghz CD Macbook

Age: 16 months
Current cap.: 1372 mAh (26%)
Original cap.: 5200 mAh
Load cycles: 479

I know 479 is a lot of cycles, but to lose so much capacity is ridiculous. Can I go down to the Apple Store and have them swap out my battery for a new one? Is it covered under Apple Care?

[Samwise592]

Running strong...

[djejrejk]

Age: 1 year

[khunxhor]

macbook 2.2Ghz
age: 2days (its a baby!... and my first:D)
current capacity:5376 mAh
original capacity: 5200mAh
cycles: 4

okay so it says its three weeks old....hows is this possible!?!?! I bought it yesterday?? Have I been sold a used mac?:confused:

and how is current more than original?

[bov]

i've had my mac for almost 3 months now and i have 73 loadcycles...

now this brings up some questions for me

how do some of you have so little loadcycles?
do you just always leave your laptops plugged in?
is it bad to do this?
is it bad to take out your laptop battery and stay powered through ac adapter?

[bdgdoom]

86 cycles...78%...yeah its going back after xmas.

[bov]

okay so it says its three weeks old....hows is this possible!?!?! I bought it yesterday?? Have I been sold a used mac?:confused:

and how is current more than original?

no you have not been sold a used mac. the age on coconut battery is the age which your mac was first manufactured ;)

[johny5]

MBP 2.2GHZ
Age: 2 Weeks
Health: 100%
Cycles: 4

[zephead]

It's been almost a year since I got my MacBook (see sig) and it's still healthy as a horse! The health fluctuates between 70% and 100% from time to time, and the capacity sometimes goes up to ~5400 mAh.

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4779/picture41yd8.jpg

[blackslayer]

It's been almost a year since I got my MacBook (see sig) and it's still healthy as a horse! The health fluctuates between 70% and 100% from time to time, and the capacity sometimes goes up to ~5400 mAh.

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4779/picture41yd8.jpg

:eek::eek::eek:

[lil' brudder]

original whitebook
18 months
232 cycles
82% health

[WillJS]

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[bov]

hey WillJS, how is your macbook 12 months old, yet it only has 7 cycles?

do you always leave it plugged in or something?

[lostfan916]

:apple:

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f248/raidersz81/Picture1-5.png

[bdgdoom]

so i took my macbook pro to a genius today. my battery currently has 70% health with 86 cycles. When the genius looked at it, the health was at 80%, he put it under a stress test, and he said the battery is *technically* still healthy enough not to qualify for replacement. he also hinted that within the next couple of days the battery could drop in health to qualify.

This is where you guys might be able to help me. Should i make an appointment now that my battery dropped down to 70% health? what does the genius usually do as far as testing? do they calibrate it? (therefore leaving me without a battery for a day or so) or would they trust me if I told them that i had tried to calibrate the battery already? If it does stay around the 70% mark, would they give me a new battery on the spot?


Thanks guys, sorry for all the punctuation errors and what not, i'm tying this at work.

[djejrejk]

Age: 1 year

Wow, I reconditioned my battery and I'm back from lower 60's (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4650257#post4650257) to the upper 80s!

[marclapierre13]

Not to happy with this, after I calibrated it. It might get better with time, who knows. Last time I calibrated it last month it was at 100%

[Shadow]

I look after my battery :cool:

...although coconutBattery says 97% :confused:

[rockstarjoe]

My macbook is about 20 months old now, and I just realized that the battery was down to 50% health with only 39 cycles (I usually leave it plugged in).

Apple was kind enough to replace the battery.

[hari-bhari]

Age: 6 months
Cycles: 7
Original Capaticity: 5200
Current: 5336

Creeps up every time I drain completely and recharge to 100, which I try and do as much as possible. I hardly ever charge it until it gets into the single digits.

[razyorv]

2.16 Blackbook

Age of mac: 7 months
Health: 100%

Doing pretty good...

[fazox]

SR Blackbook
bought November 23rd
Health 100%
Cycles 58

[one1]

MB 1.83 Core 2 Duo
Age: 9 months
Cycles: 406
Capacity: 92%

Guess I'm the only one that likes to run on battery. :eek:

That book doesn't exist.... but I know what you meant. ;) :)

Coconut battery doesn't work on mine for some reason, it's all screwy. Here's the bad news from the sys profiler.

[topher2889]

Age of Battery 4 months
Battery Health: 100%
Cycles: 23

[torpy]

Should I be worried? coconutBattery puts the age of my Mac at around ~6months and battery health is at ~74%..

[Jeremy1026]

Bought 11/1/07

[Ryox]

12" Powerbook
Age: 37 Months
Health: 61%
Cycles: 380

[sparkyms]

Here's mine, I'm doing pretty well I think...

*edit* Had it since May 2007

[goodtimes5]

This is pretty bad. Think I have a chance at arguing for a free battery from the Store?

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