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MadGamer 22-09-2009 22:56
Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
 
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Originally Posted by looper35uk (Post 34876293)
To maximise the life span of any rechargeable battery you should fully recharged then fully discharge, it's not a mac thing it's a battery thing.

There's a good dashboard widget, iStat pro that will monitor the health of your battery. It also monitor fans, temperatures, network, disks, memory and cpu usage. It's a free app and you can get from the main apple store. My battery health check is telling me that my batteries health is 98%, that after 250 cycles. I believe thats pretty good.

Anyway MadGamer how are you liking your new Mac.
99% after 4 cycles. I like my MacBook Pro very much. Im surprised at how cool it runs

Hom3r 22-09-2009 22:59
Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
 
Is there on of those widgets that works on a XP PC

haydnwalker 23-09-2009 10:28
Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadGamer (Post 34876854)
I like my MacBook Pro very much. Im surprised at how cool it runs
I love my MacBook Pro - best computing device I ever bought (though also the most expensive) - Even more than my Amiga 500 in the late 80s/early 90s and that was a whopping £700!

I've also got XP Installed via BootCamp now (wasn't working before but a trip to Apples Support forums helped loads), so my games aren't an issue :)

MadGamer 23-09-2009 21:43
Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
 
Thing is I cant justify £75 for another copy of Vista, so when I get the money I may buy a copy of Cross Over

haydnwalker 23-09-2009 23:36
Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
 
I was lucky, my copy of XP is an old copy of XP Pro that I had before I got Vista.

Damien 24-09-2009 18:05
Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
 
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Originally Posted by MadGamer (Post 34877407)
Thing is I cant justify £75 for another copy of Vista, so when I get the money I may buy a copy of Cross Over
Nor should you. £64 on for Windows 7 on the other hand...http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Wi...3808267&sr=8-1

haydnwalker 24-09-2009 20:19
Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
 
Or if your a student with a .ac.uk email address its only £25/£30 :)


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