Battery recharge time?

[Cloudgazer]

How long should it take to recharge a macbook battery?

It seems like it takes forever.

My old powerbook went from 0% to 100% in a couple of hours.

The macbook seems extremely slow in comparison.

Five hours plus it seems.

Is this right?

 

[tayloralmond]

That does seem a bit long to charge...I know it takes my WhiteBook about 3 to 3.5 hours to charge from 0-100%...but 5 hours is kind-of extreme.

 

[richard.mac]

http://www.apple.com/batteries/

 

[uaecasher]

it take me 3 hours to charge my mbp

 

[Cloudgazer]

http://www.apple.com/batteries/

Strangely there is nothing about laptop battery charging times there.

Just drained my battery completely and gonna time how long it takes.

 

[richard.mac]

the graph is generally for all lithium batteries. for notebook battery info theres a link on the top right of that page.

 

[axelnova]

according to the apple literature on batteries, it should be pretty quick to charge to 80%, and then will "trickle charge" the last 20%.

you didn't say if your MB was sleeping/off or in use - i've found that makes a huge difference

 

[Kaldama]

guys r u keeping ur macs all the time plugged in the electricity network or draining up the till empty is actually useful once in a while ?

 

[Cloudgazer]

so far 4 hours and it's at 92%

I've let the macbook sleep while it recharges.... so that means it will take a lot longer if I'm actually using it.

that's a long time....

 

[Darkroom]

it has taken my new macbook battery 5+ hours to charge. macbook it turned off while charging (magsafe light turns green when charged). seems ghetto since it takes longer to charge than it does to completely drain.