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Callibrate battery mba
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turn off all your screen savers and energy settings and let it run full blast once a month before bedtime....
get up and plug it in -
done....
Speaking of this, my battery indicator is NEVER accurate, I've had it for about 4 days now and I've let it go all the way down twice and let it sit. It might say 52% with 2:10 remaining and then a minute later say 3:40 remaining, it's all over the place all the time. I have the 11"...
Anyone??
Anyone??
That's because it calculates based on what you're doing. This is not a "real world" estimate. You can browse and such for probably 5+ hours. But don't expect to stream movies for 5 hours.
On the new laptops that have a built-in battery Apple say's calibration is no longer necessary.
If you want to calibrate it anyway here is the Apple page.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/9036.html
If you want to calibrate it anyway here is the Apple page.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/9036.html
No longer needed ever? I know there's no need to calibrate when you first pull it new out of the box, but I didn't think it meant it didn't need calibrating ever. Is this true?
Honestly, what do you gain after calibrating the battery, other than a "more pleasing" display in the battery info?
