How has your battery held up?

[Dudeman486]

I see all of these horrible threads about people's batteries losing huge amounts of capacity after too few loadcycles, and it got me wondering.

What are the specs of your battery? Loadcycles & % capacity remaining.

You can either use system profiler or http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/ to find this out.

I don't know if I have some kind of super-battery that spits in the face of manufacturer specs, but I have 697 cycles with 100% of original capacity.

 

[priller]

12 months old, 92 cycles, 100%

 

[MM07]

14 months, 4 cycles, 100%.

I leave mine plugged in a lot.

 

[CrzyCanuck72]

28 months
520 cycles
98%

 

[Spares]

275 cycles
93 - 96% health depending on the day
8 months old

 

[Hakkera]

Hmmm... 6 Cycles, and apparently this thing is 123 months old... Beats me as to why; I've only had this for a few weeks! battery capacity is at 100% mind.

 

[Biscotti]

25 Months
100 Cycles
69% health right now... Sux :-(

 

[OnceBitten]

Hmmm... 6 Cycles, and apparently this thing is 123 months old... Beats me as to why; I've only had this for a few weeks! battery capacity is at 100% mind.

LOL mine also says 123 months

 

[Hakkera]

LOL mine also says 123 months

Confusing potatoes eh?

 

[ayeying]

3 Months
91 Cycles
100% Health

 

[alphaod]

I had a battery just die:

50 cycles, 3 months, 98% health.

Also have a spare which is also 50 cycles 3 month, but 100% health.

 

[NewMacbookPlz]

4 months
22 cycles
100% health

 

[VSMacOne]

Here's mine.

 

[199708]

4months 116cycles.
it came with 10cycles on it

brand new alu MB.


somethign must be wrong, i let it discharge the battery every friday night until sunday afternoon when i charge it up ready for work on mondays.

 

[sn00pie]

7 months
95%
50 cycles

 

[knarzie]

60 cycles
100% health
10 weeks old

 

[knarzie]

12 months old, 92 cycles, 100%

people tell me different things about this so can someone clarify this for me??

I guess if you constantly charge, unplug, use up, charge etc the battery will have the shortest life cycle.... but should I take the battery out when I have it plugged in all day?

I don't have a desktop and people keep telling me that it is bad for the battery to leave it in when I have the power plugged in all day.

 

[Zyniker]

I have three batteries for my MacBook. One of them died on me (defective) and was immediately replaced by the manager of my local Apple Store. The other two are still going strong and the replaced one (which I'm pretty sure I'm using right now) is at:

91 load cycles
100%

Current Battery Capacity: 5250 mAh
Original Battery Capacity: 5020 mAh

 

[JoeDRC]

13 Months old
411 cycles
100% Capacity

 

[Dudeman486]

people tell me different things about this so can someone clarify this for me??

I guess if you constantly charge, unplug, use up, charge etc the battery will have the shortest life cycle.... but should I take the battery out when I have it plugged in all day?

I don't have a desktop and people keep telling me that it is bad for the battery to leave it in when I have the power plugged in all day.

well, don't leave it plugged in constantly. if you do that, then the battery itself will hold less of a charge since it is used almost never. keeping it plugged in for awhile is fine, but make sure you still use your computer without a charger too. and discharging completely and then recharging up once a month is advisable as well.

 

[cathyy]

I've got a Macbook Pro, less than 100 cycles, and my battery is at less than 60% capacity.

 

[GfulDedFan]

28 Months old
130 cycles
100% Capacity

Battery replaced by Apple summer '07 (Battery Update 1.2)

 

[The Samurai]

Here's mines, I am actually quite surprised how good my little beast actually works.

p.s. mines is low on battery due to me just getting home and using my macbook for a good few hours.

 

[MultiFinder17]

Here's my 12" PowerBook: