I bought a 1st gen Macbook Pro 15″ last December, 16th to be exact.
I don’t usually use this laptop at work because I have another so it’s pretty much my home machine, and the 34 cycle count on my battery reflects that.
I took it with me on this mini Christmas vacations, and first noticed the battery problem when I booted Windows to play. Just after unplugging the power cord I saw 0:58 remaining battery time. No… Windows is playing tricks on me. Well, OS X must be a joker as well, because I got around the same time.
This was taken from the CoconutBattery widget. CoconutBattery assumes my battery has 5550 mAh Full Charge capacity and says I only have 35% of that. Well, that was taken at 3pm this afternoon. It’s now 6:45pm and the value has gone down to 32%. iStat Pro reports the same.
Looking at System Profiler to confirm the current Charge Capacity value:
Well, 1814 mAh is way bellow 5550 mAh. Apple suggests 80% charge capacity is normal after 300 cycle counts, I’m at 34 cycles just after a year with a 32% charge capacity :S
Called Apple’s new Support Line here in Portugal, a nice Brazilian lady asked me the necessary questions but will have to call Support again to talk to someone from the “Tech team” in order to get my replacement battery approved. More on this next week.
Comment of the day
in Jeff Alexander’s blog.
Microsoft’s track record on security is improving, but the comment still cracked me up