powerbook battery questions

[Stevp1]

it seems that one of my PB batteries is has a much shorter life than it used to. It has a capacity of 4981 according to "ioreg -l -w 0 | grep IOBatteryInfo".


I can only get about 1.5 hours out of it, rather than the 2-3 I got when it was new.

I guess question one is how do i know the actual state of the battery by the above terminal commands (what is the info telling me)?

two, what are some good sources/mfg for aftermarket batts? or should I just stay with Apple?


Thanks.

-Steve

 

[liketom]

try this first

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86284

 

[Stevp1]

try this first

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86284

did that. didn't seem to help. I'm going to give it another cycle before I make a move, though.

 

[liketom]

from another thread tonight there was a link to this program which is very cool about telling you like it is with your batt

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/ is the program
from this thread

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/160589/
and

 

[Stevp1]

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/ is the program
from this thread

thanks, but i'm not up to Tiger yet. I know, I know.

 

[liketom]

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/ is the program
from this thread

thanks, but i'm not up to Tiger yet. I know, I know.

no Tiger ! wow save up and get that bad boy tiger - you will love it

don't solve your problem though but hey

 

[AmbitiousLemon]

the cycling should help a bit (even if you have to do it 3 or 4 times) but if you end up needing to buy a new battery check out the Batteries by newertech they get much better life than those apple supplies.