Battery Calibration Questions

For step one: If it is at less than 95 percent it should charge to 100%. If it doesn't show 100%, maybe that's because it needs to be calibrated.

Step 5 makes no sense at all the way it is worded. Once it automatically goes to sleep the only way to turn it off is to first plug it in again. But there is still some juice left in the battery, so I wouldn't turn it off and then plug it in again right away.
What I do is leave it in an unplugged state for at least 5 more hours (usually overnight) after it goes to sleep automatically to make sure the battery has drained completely.

 

I just put a DVD movie in before going to bed and mute the sound. Do this on a night where you don't need to be mobile the next day.

Or... just load any Adobe application.

 

Where did you get this information? I haven't read this before.

 

Apple Support page. They have so many versions on how to calibrate the battery. Some more clear than others but they all do the same thing.

 

I usually don't do step five. I boot into Windows and play WoW or some sort of 3D gaming, this will drain your battery completely in no time without waiting 5 hours. You'll know it worked because once the machine shuts down, you won't be able to turn it back on =). Then allow it to fully recharge, done!

 

Well if you haven't calibrated your battery then! Step five is there for a reason.
You've only completed step four: "when the battery gets very low, the computer will automatically go to sleep".
You can't turn the computer on after that, without plugging it in. But the battery still has some juice left that it keeps as a reserve. Hence the five hours it needs to be left unplugged in step five.

 

I've done this too. Load up a dozen video pages at once and watch the juice disappear from your battery right before your eyes.

Make sure you're using the King of all cpu-sucking-flash-hating browsers (Safari).

 

Considering that I leave my plug in most of the time, I simply let the laptop run completely dry and charging it back up once a month.

 

Each version is for a different type of Apple laptop I think