Coconut Battery on your New MBP

millertime021 · Apr 21, 2010

Just got my new 15" i7 MacBook Pro Hi-Res Glossy and here's what Coconut Battery says.
Use this thread as a comparison for all the new MacBook Pro's out there!
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Feel free to post images!

noobinator · Apr 21, 2010

I only have a 13" but I just want to comment that coconut battery says my new mac is 7 weeks old. So they were making these things 7 weeks ago?

boylerman · Apr 21, 2010

My brand new 13" reads as 120 months old in Coconut Battery... Any ideas?

millertime021 · Apr 21, 2010

noobinator said:
I only have a 13" but I just want to comment that coconut battery says my new mac is 7 weeks old. So they were making these things 7 weeks ago?

I'm guessing you got a base model? They make them before they announce them, so maybe it was one of the earlier ones? Mine was BTO so thats why its only a few weeks old.

millertime021 · Apr 21, 2010

boylerman said:
My brand new 13" reads as 120 months old in Coconut Battery... Any ideas?

Glitch in the program maybe?

I've heard of it happening before with the new ones.

paintballswimgu · Apr 21, 2010

15 in i5 baseline macbook pro with hi res antiglare 500gb 7200 rpm
I'm in the middle of draining the battery to get it reset correctly, but heres what it says

current battery charge:3155
maximum battery charge: 6923
Current battery capacity:6923
Original battery capacity:6900
100% life
age of mac is 2 weeks. 1 load cycle

brdnboy · Apr 21, 2010

boylerman said:
My brand new 13" reads as 120 months old in Coconut Battery... Any ideas?

Its reading the year "0" in the serial number as the year 2000 instead of 2010. Just a glitch that the next update of coconut should fix for the new models.

zMudvayne · Apr 21, 2010

boylerman said:
My brand new 13" reads as 120 months old in Coconut Battery... Any ideas?

The serial code formatting changed in the newest models. Completely different, MacRumors ran an article on it but Apple asked them to remove it.

dausone · Apr 24, 2010

15" i7 4GBram 7200 hr
Age: 3 Weeks
Original battery capacity: 6900 mAh

2010-04-21 98% (6801 mAh) on arrival (1 battery-loadcycle)
2010-04-24 98% (6776 mAh) 4 battery-loadcycles
2010-04-25 98% (6809 mAh) 4 battery-loadcycles

*EDIT - Interesting, my battery capacity just went up surpassing my initial run of coconut.

jess222 · Apr 24, 2010

mines all screwy...17" i5 glossy

cluthz · Apr 24, 2010

jess222 said:
mines all screwy...17" i5 glossy

You have an old version of coconut

jess222 · Apr 24, 2010

^ ok updated...and i entered the max battery capacity in the preferences

millertime021 · Apr 24, 2010

jess222 said:
^ ok updated...and i entered the max battery capacity in the preferences

Still looks a bit messed up!

haisdeaks · Apr 25, 2010

hmm thats disappointing, my current capacity is already lower than the original capacity for my 15" i7?

UDPATE: now says 6610 mAh as current battery capacity, its going down!

millertime021 · Apr 25, 2010

haisdeaks said:
hmm thats disappointing, my current capacity is already lower than the original capacity for my 15" i7?

UDPATE: now says 6610 mAh as current battery capacity, its going down!

Have you calibrated it yet?
That could possibly help.

I hadn't when I took the screenshot and I'm currently in the process of doing so right now. I will post changes if any occur.

NateDogX · Apr 25, 2010

Can someone post their 13" battery readout? I'm a little worried about mine.

Current Capacity: 5710 mAh
Original Battery Capacity: 5770 mAh (98% health)

Age=3 weeks, load cycles=2.

Timer measures around 5 hours. Should be getting WAY more, right?

yangz · Apr 25, 2010

NateDogX said:
Can someone post their 13" battery readout? I'm a little worried about mine.

Current Capacity: 5710 mAh
Original Battery Capacity: 5770 mAh (98% health)

Age=3 weeks, load cycles=2.

Timer measures around 5 hours. Should be getting WAY more, right?

NateDogX · Apr 25, 2010

How much time does OS X say you have per 100% charge?

ipponrg · Apr 25, 2010

15" i7 high res glossy

NateDogX · Apr 25, 2010

I was able to get MUCH more battery life out of mine after doing a clean install of OS X. I'm not sure if they used a 15" OS X image to copy to my drive, but it helped by displayed battery time by an increase of about five hours.

millertime021 · Apr 25, 2010

millertime021 said:
Just got my new 15" i7 MacBook Pro Hi-Res Glossy and here's what Coconut Battery says.
Use this thread as a comparison for all the new MacBook Pro's out there!

Feel free to post images!

Here's mine after the battery calibration. Not much change.

haisdeaks · Apr 25, 2010

millertime021 said:
Have you calibrated it yet?
That could possibly help.

I hadn't when I took the screenshot and I'm currently in the process of doing so right now. I will post changes if any occur.

I've always gone through a cycle of running it flat then charging it fully, however I'm doing a proper calibration per apple describes as I type this in a hope this improves things.

Either way I'm pretty dissapointed for the battery to degrade this soon :-(

millertime021 · Apr 25, 2010

haisdeaks said:
I've always gone through a cycle of running it flat then charging it fully, however I'm doing a proper calibration per apple describes as I type this in a hope this improves things.

Either way I'm pretty dissapointed for the battery to degrade this soon :-(

Well good luck! Hopefully it fixes it.

But also, I wouldn't be too worried yet. Just because you've lost a little already, I wouldn't assume it would decrease at the same rate.

koruki · Apr 25, 2010

2 load cycles, 100% health, 3 weeks old =)

haisdeaks · Apr 26, 2010

millertime021 said:
Well good luck! Hopefully it fixes it.

But also, I wouldn't be too worried yet. Just because you've lost a little already, I wouldn't assume it would decrease at the same rate.

Battery calibration seems to have helped! Back up to 99% health (6850 mAh) at the moment. I think I'll do the same tonight and see if I can get it back up to 100%

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