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dictoresno

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My sister gave me her old Macbook Pro mid 2010 with a bad hard drive. I replaced it and now works great. I restored/migrated data from my iMac via ethernet cable and noticed the battery drains very fast on it now. My sister said apple replaced the battery under 2 years ago, so it should still be good. it drains almost 1% every minute or two. Is it possible that the restore was funky and is creating the drain? I won't bother or hurt me to start from scratch and reinstall the OS, so I will if it will fix the drain. But I would rather not go that route if its not necessary. Any ideas?
 
Can you run Activity Monitor and see what is chewing up your CPU? Since this is basically a new install it's possible that Spotlight is indexing the hard drive. After it is done, CPU utilization should go down.
 
the install was about two weeks ago so I'm sure its settled by now.

i downloaded coconut battery to evaluate the battery and these are its stats:

Max Charge - 6642 mAh, design capacity 6900 mAh (96.3% of design)
Load Cycles - 337
Battery Status - Good
Manufacture Date - 9/25/12
Manufacturer - SMP
Age - 1135 days
Activity Monitor shows 98% idle when i pause for a second while looking at it.

So the battery appears to be working right, maybe its just me.
 
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