what's Your Batterys Health and Cycles

[claimed4all]

61 Cycles
96% Health

 

[Chase R]

 

[sn00pie]

This is odd. Judging by most members battery statistics, mine aren't very good. Only 45 cycles and 5% gone?

 

[DeusInvictus7]

Mine...

Not too bad.

 

[paolo-]

macbook 5.1

Current Battery Capacity : 4358 mAh

100%
70 cycles
4 months old.

 

[sn00pie]

How do you guys use your batteries? Run them from 100% to 0% and then fully charge? Or just charge whenever you feel like it?

 

[JamesGorman]

when im at home mines usually plugged in and whenever i take it out it only usually drops to 30% or so than i charge it right back up.

 

[DeusInvictus7]

How do you guys use your batteries? Run them from 100% to 0% and then fully charge? Or just charge whenever you feel like it?

I pretty much just charge it whenever I feel like it, but I don't think I have ever really let my battery go lower than 50%, maybe a couple times other than my original calibration.

 

[alexbates]

Thanks for letting me know about this cool app. I think its much easier to see visually than System Profiler.

Its wrong though. It says my Mac is 24 months old. Its really 35 months old though. Any ideas why it says that?

 

[wbe858]

Lets see mine is at..

96 Cycles
100% Health (It does bounce around sometimes)
4 Months old

 

[romanaz]

mid 2007 macbook pro 17inch, 200 cycles 95% health. Not to bad so far, still managing 3hours of battery life.

 

[VSMacOne]

here we go.. not too shabby. It's usually around 4290.
I keep it plugged up about 70% of the time and use it on battery every once in a while... works good for me so far!!

 

[priller]

92 or 93 cycles, 100% health, shame the magsafe adapters don't last as long

 

[NewMacbookPlz]

21 cycles over 4.5 months.

100% health

 

[Cboss]

'07 Blackbook

133 cycles
98% health (fluctuates between 95% and 100%)

 

[hmai18]

Unibody: 100% health, 10 cycles, have had it since October.

 

[dmiller]

Blackbook from '08
I use the battery quite a bit

 

[Carrot007]

How do you guys use your batteries? Run them from 100% to 0% and then fully charge? Or just charge whenever you feel like it?

With current battery tech it is best to charge when you can. That is it is not good to let them run down completely (completely losing charge would in fact kill the battery, but it knows this and wont let you (0% is not no charge!)).

However to get a useful display of capacity left you you need to do a calibration cycle letting it go right down. This does nothing to increase the life of your battery. It just makes the displayed inofrmation better.

 

[jodelli]

It's been around:

 

[petemwah]

blackbook bought june 2008...

mine's 641 cycles and 100% health. i'm pretty pleased with that myself!

 

[OnceBitten]

Check out the age?

 

[pilotkid]

95% Health and 205 Cycles...Bought in June of 08, the MacBook, not the battery

 

[cerhard]

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=158461&stc=1&d=1234982234

 

[Faraday]

Rev A Macbook - Battery replaced in Sept 2007

Still over 100% of rated capacity, nearly 18 months after a warranty battery replacement.

The replacement batter started out at 109% of rated when new, and actually went UP in capacity for a few months after that before coming down again.

 

[acfusion29]

Cycles: 40
Health: 99%

Got it mid-December.