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Drop in capacity?

charlieegan3

charlieegan3

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Just out of interest I looked at my old iBook G4 battery today to see it's health - I couldn't help but notice the original max capacity: 63433mAh, where as my new rMBP is around 8000mAh.

Why is this? do computers just use less power now? or is there some other battery stat that i'm missing?
 
simsaladimbamba

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The battery is just kaputt. I had it happen to my 2004 iBook some years ago, when it got a 22,000 mAh capacity but could only live on battery for 30 minutes or less.

A 2008 MacBook has a capacity of approx. 4,000 mAh, a late 2008 15" MBP has a capacity of around 6,000 mAh, a 2009 17" MBP has a capacity of close to 13,000mAh. My 2004 iBook had a capacity of 3,000 to 4,000 mAh.
 
charlieegan3

charlieegan3

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simsaladimbamba said:
The battery is just kaputt. I had it happen to my 2004 iBook some years ago, when it got a 22,000 mAh capacity but could only live on battery for 30 minutes or less.

A 2008 MacBook has a capacity of approx. 4,000 mAh, a late 2008 15" MBP has a capacity of around 6,000 mAh, a 2009 17" MBP has a capacity of close to 13,000mAh. My 2004 iBook had a capacity of 3,000 to 4,000 mAh.
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Okay, so that is something that happens to batteries when they get old? It had me really confused.
 
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