TiBook battery going strong with 694 cycles

[scottlinux]

Using the program coconutbattery, I saw that the battery in my circ. 2002 15" 867Mhz TiBook is still going strong, after 694 cycles. Still holds the charge for 2.5 hours! Check out the image.

 

[apfhex]

Horray?

Mine is doing far worse after only 42 cycles (April 2002 800MHz TiBook). When it was my primary machine I used it 99% of the time on AC power. Now the battery can barely even seem to boot the machine without draining itself.

 

[dpaanlka]

Horray?

Mine is doing far worse after only 42 cycles (April 2002 800MHz TiBook). When it was my primary machine I used it 99% of the time on AC power. Now the battery can barely even seem to boot the machine without draining itself.

What!? Thats insane!

My 1400c lasts longer than the boot process on it's original battery!

 

[NJuul]

Hrmph, I'm a bit dissatisfied by mine...
Battery is about 10 months old, and in worse shape than a TiBook battery!

 

[madog]

The backup battery on my 8 year old PowerMac G4 is still going strong..... in your face.

Anybody need the time?

 

[SC68Cal]

That is nuts. My TiBook batteries barely lasted 200.

 

[maxp1]

My girlfriend uses my ~7 year old 500MHz TiBook. Battery still lasts about 1.5 hours with normal usage (not running full blast with the screen turned up.) It's not the original battery, but still about 5 years old.

That's better than the two year old battery I have for my AlBook. Weird

 

[scottlinux]

I think NASA must have slipped in a mega-battery in this TiBook.

 

[aquajet]

Mine is doing far worse after only 42 cycles (April 2002 800MHz TiBook). When it was my primary machine I used it 99% of the time on AC power. Now the battery can barely even seem to boot the machine without draining itself.

That's your problem -- you didn't use the battery enough. These batteries will degrade faster if you don't use them.

Laptop users -- unplug your computers!

 

[dpaanlka]

That's your problem -- you didn't use the battery enough. These batteries will degrade faster if you don't use them.

Laptop users -- unplug your computers!

I essentially never used my 2003 17" PowerBook (the first one) on battery - when I finally sold it in December it still held a charge as if it were new.

My 2000 iBook, which I used the battery constantly, was unable to hold more than an hour charge within three years.