I just bought this Macbook Air a few days ago and Coconut battery says its age is 28 weeks. Is this just an error by the program, or what's going on here?
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Coconut Battery: Age of your mac: 28 weeks???
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simsaladimbamba
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It can be an error, but it could also be, that the MBA rolled off the production line 28 weeks ago. Since then it has been a zombie and now you just revived it.
Anyway, you can check with your serial number here: www.appleserialnumberinfo.com
Anyway, you can check with your serial number here: www.appleserialnumberinfo.com
There were a lot of reports like this when the 2011 MBA was released, probably indicates a lot of them were built back in Feb/Mar timeframe and shelved until the official release a few months later. Should be no big deal, although there is a time-dependent degradation of lithium batteries.
Gemütlichkeit
macrumors 65816
batteries are made somewhere else that sit in a warehouse until they're needed by the manufacturer.
not a big deal, it's not going to be as new as the day you bought it.
not a big deal, it's not going to be as new as the day you bought it.
Cynicalone
macrumors 68040
coconutBattery was never updated for the new Apple serial number system.
If you do a bit of Googling you can find the new system. Apple has done a good job of hiding it, but you can find it if you look.
For example with the new system I can tell you my i7 was built in June, but according to coconutBattery it is 8 months old.
If you do a bit of Googling you can find the new system. Apple has done a good job of hiding it, but you can find it if you look.
For example with the new system I can tell you my i7 was built in June, but according to coconutBattery it is 8 months old.
take cocconutbattery with a pinch of salt, it has been known to get things like this messed up at times 🙂
GGJstudios
macrumors Westmere
Battery ages are not measured and never displayed by coconutBattery; only the age of the Mac.
This ^^^
Exactly. Apple Tweaks Serial Number Format With New MacBook Pro
Cynicalone
macrumors 68040
Funny we are talking about this again for the hundredth time and finally today an update was released. 🙂
http://www.coconut-flavour.com/
http://www.coconut-flavour.com/
I have had my MBA for 12 days and it is listed as 2 weeks old.
I doubt it is accurate considering I bought it at Best Buy.
I doubt it is accurate considering I bought it at Best Buy.
GGJstudios
macrumors Westmere
See the post just before yours. Also, it doesn't matter whether you buy it from Best Buy or Apple and it doesn't matter how long you've had it.