MacBook: OS X Reinstall and Calibration

[Nikhil72]

Hey all. I just purchsed a BlackBook and am loving it...it replaces a 1 1/2 year old PowerBook 1.67 and I am loving even more than my previous system.

I calibrated the battery but decided to reinstall OS X to save some space and selectively install some components. Should I be re-calibrating the battery following completion of the OS install?

 

[Counterfit]

I'm pretty sure the calibration is for the software in the battery, not the computer itself.

 

[Nikhil72]

Thanks...I wasn't sure if it was the software in the battery that was being calibrated or if it was the power meter in OS X that was calibrating itself to the battery's capacity, etc.

 

[hStack]

I always thought calibration is for mitigating the memory effect of the battery itself. Actually in the MacBook manual, it recommends to calibrate the battery once a month, which sounds suspiciously a maintenance schedule to alleviate memory effects problem. Even though the Macbook battery is llithium ion, which was supposed to eliminate any memory effect issue.