Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
22-09-2009, 22:56
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Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
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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.
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99% after 4 cycles. I like my MacBook Pro very much. Im surprised at how cool it runs
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22-09-2009, 22:59
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Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
Is there on of those widgets that works on a XP PC
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23-09-2009, 10:28
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Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
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Originally Posted by MadGamer
I like my MacBook Pro very much. Im surprised at how cool it runs
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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 
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23-09-2009, 21:43
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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
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23-09-2009, 23:36
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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.
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24-09-2009, 18:05
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Re: Optimising your battery on a new Mac Notebook
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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
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Nor should you. £64 on for Windows 7 on the other hand... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Wi...3808267&sr=8-1
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24-09-2009, 20:19
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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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