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15" MacBook Pro Battery Tests: "Eight, freakin, hours"
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I second all of these. By the way, does anyone know what's up with resolution independence? We were supposed to get it with Leopard, then with Snow Leopard....
Why is the new 15" so much better than the unibody 17" with supposedly the same non-removable battery?
nice!!! one thing i love about my mb is the batterylife. when it's time for me to upgrade (either i have plenty of money or the mb dies), i will happily do so! 
my macbook is 22 month old, has 586 loadcycles and still 100% capacity (according to cocnutbattery)
my macbook is 22 month old, has 586 loadcycles and still 100% capacity (according to cocnutbattery)
Quit crying about the built-in batteries. They are easy enough to replace. You don't *have* to take it to the Apple store to get it replaced.
Is this true? As I don't have an Apple store nearby, would Apple send me a replacement battery, and have me send the original back, should I need to replace it? I'm on the 4th battery for my MBP (Late 2006 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo). My only concern with the new MBPs would be having to send it away to replace the battery under warranty. Would be nice if someone could confirm this (maybe a 17" uMBP user who's had a battery problem, and doesn't have an Apple store nearby).
Allow me to say to the naysayers, to M$ and Laurene and that other clown they had in their bang bus / bros ads, Bruno or whatever his name was, to Suck it Up, while they are busy comparing crappy specs on their windoze crapware apple is busy with BOTH cutting down their prices AND innovating.
This is dedicated to all these people.
This is dedicated to all these people.
99% of MBP users never used it in the first place. An SD Card slot makes a lot more sense.
Probably not from Apple but in the same way as you can get replacement batteries for iPods from third-party manufacturers, you'll probably can get replacement batteries for the unibody MBPs sooner or later (if Apple has done something really fancy with their technology, these up to 1000 re-charges are somewhat unique, it might take a bit longer for others to replicate that).
But at any rate, Apple will probably sell the batteries to authorized Apple service centers, so you should be able to get it through them.
What is the logic behind this? It is fair enough to say wanting to wait for technology X to appear in a computer before buying the next computer. But with MBPs having FW800, which might be in real terms about 2-3 times as fast as USB 2, the justification for your decision to wait does not make much sense.
If you had said, you wanted to wait for USB 3 because it is about 3 to 4 times as FW800 that would make perfect sense.
ditto, if there was any possible way of replacing the battery in my macbook pro (late 2008 model) then i would do it in an instant. not fussed about how much that would cost, although it is annoying to see that battery life has almost doubled with the new updates
Things I have learnt about batteries on any consumer equipment:
1. No-one's idea of "real world scenario" seems to match mine, because I never get as many hours as salesmen or reviewers do out of new machines.
2. All claimed reports on capacity loss are wrong, and need to be cut by about a quarter unless the battery is left outside of the machine in a cool, dry environment.
3. When batteries start going wrong - e.g. bulging, leaking, etc. - you want to take them out now. Possibly even yesterday, or last week. And it's imperative to have visual clues that this'll happen, otherwise you will (at best) ruin your hardware.
4. There's always room for a spare battery. There's not always a spare power outlet and adapter.
5. Batteries are cheaper and manufactured by third parties for longer when they are easily replaceable. I can still get batteries for 6-8 year old laptops that I or my colleagues/family/friends use.
6. I take better care of my hardware than anyone else, and I am also available to me wherever and whenever I am, so battery replacements are most conveniently done by me.
7. I also take better care of my private data than anyone else, and I'm not going to waste my time removing my hard drive just so someone else can replace my battery. Even if there were a convenient audited full-disk encryption solution for OS X, it doesn't mean I'm going to ignore the principle of multiple layers of defense - where one important layer is "don't give your machine to anyone else unless unavoidable".
What's going to happen in 2-3 years' time is what happens with every other new battery tech that's ever been divined: heavy or (as yet undefined, since it depends on the tech) atypical users will find their batteries mostly dead. Light users or those who buy a new machine every month will claim correctly that it doesn't affect them.
I can just about stomach getting a low end iPod with a hard-to-replace battery. A laptop, or even a phone? For all the reasons above, never.
1. No-one's idea of "real world scenario" seems to match mine, because I never get as many hours as salesmen or reviewers do out of new machines.
2. All claimed reports on capacity loss are wrong, and need to be cut by about a quarter unless the battery is left outside of the machine in a cool, dry environment.
3. When batteries start going wrong - e.g. bulging, leaking, etc. - you want to take them out now. Possibly even yesterday, or last week. And it's imperative to have visual clues that this'll happen, otherwise you will (at best) ruin your hardware.
4. There's always room for a spare battery. There's not always a spare power outlet and adapter.
5. Batteries are cheaper and manufactured by third parties for longer when they are easily replaceable. I can still get batteries for 6-8 year old laptops that I or my colleagues/family/friends use.
6. I take better care of my hardware than anyone else, and I am also available to me wherever and whenever I am, so battery replacements are most conveniently done by me.
7. I also take better care of my private data than anyone else, and I'm not going to waste my time removing my hard drive just so someone else can replace my battery. Even if there were a convenient audited full-disk encryption solution for OS X, it doesn't mean I'm going to ignore the principle of multiple layers of defense - where one important layer is "don't give your machine to anyone else unless unavoidable".
What's going to happen in 2-3 years' time is what happens with every other new battery tech that's ever been divined: heavy or (as yet undefined, since it depends on the tech) atypical users will find their batteries mostly dead. Light users or those who buy a new machine every month will claim correctly that it doesn't affect them.
I can just about stomach getting a low end iPod with a hard-to-replace battery. A laptop, or even a phone? For all the reasons above, never.
Allow me to say to the naysayers, to M$ and Laurene and that other clown they had in their bang bus / bros ads, Bruno or whatever his name was, to Suck it Up, while they are busy comparing crappy specs on their windoze crapware apple is busy with BOTH cutting down their prices AND innovating.
This is dedicated to all these people.
haha you wonder why apple has to cut price. If you are smart then i dont have to tell you this. Look at last quarter, all mac sales were down badly hahha
HA! That graph says the 2008 MBPs will last 5 hours (with web browsing no less). I'm lucky if I see 3 and a half (yes, with the screen dimmed, bluetooth off, etc.)