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Hello,
I am confused as to what the "battery health" of my MBP is. I downloaded an app it told me it is 89% but it is not consistent with the cycles, mAh capacity, etc (it should be more?), so I am thinking the app might be innacure in reporting this (reviews say this). I just want to have a second source to see where I stand.
Any other ways/apps? Please let me know.
Thank you
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 17-inch: 2.4 GHz
Click on the Apple:upper left" click about this mac, click more info. In the left colum under hardware, click power, this should give power/battery info.
Click on the Apple:upper left" click about this mac, click more info. In the left colum under hardware, click power, this should give power/battery info.
Thanks for your reply, I am able to get the general information, but what indicates the "battery health" percentage a lot of people give?
Mine doesn't show this.
"Health" is the remaining full-charge capacity in System Profiler > Power divided by the original average battery capacity for that model. Those originals are sometimes hard to find. I use Coconut Battery. It reads the Mac model and pulls its original capacity from its database to calculate and display Helath so you don't have to. It also lets you save the readings so you can spot trends that might indicate a failing battery
http://www.coconut-flavour.com/
Note that any calculation of battery health is only accurate to a couple of percent. The baseline or original value used is an average--new batteries do not have identical capacities due to the nature of the technology and their manufacturing techniques.
Got it.
Thanks!
Also, in systwm profiler it has a line that states batterry health, anything but normal should be sause for concern.
If you click on yhe battery icon on the top roght of your screen, click preferences you can have it display battery % left, although this is not totally accurate. Highest I've ever seen is 96%.
Also there is a awitch that will stop the charging rpocess, so as to not over charge the battery.
I run 10.6.8, and had abattery die and a warning window popped up saying there was a battery problem.
I wouldn't worry much till your battery stops holding carge for any reasonable amount of time.
Well, see, my charge says 100%, but coconut says 88%, and iStat says 89%, and another App Store app says 89%, so I am confused as to why my charge says 100%, and why it would be 88-89% if I've only done around 250 cycles (out of 1000).
strange, all the different reading, my only has 18 cycles on it and I've never seen 100%. Cuold it be dicepency in comonent tolerance?
Just wondering.
MacBook Pro — How do you check battery health?
