battery info from terminal

Hello,

I bought my MacBook this weak and on the first use I followed the callibration procedure. My first impression for the battery was that it was not as good as of the iBook. The battery indicator never showed more than 4 hours (well, actually it showed more but very quickly decreased) even though i did callibartion the first day. I would like to ask other users of MacBooks what info do they get when using this command in terminal "ioreg -w0 -l | grep Capacity". These are my results:
"CurrentCapacity" = 1836
"LegacyBatteryInfo" = {"Capacity"=5125,"Amperage"=2697,"Cycle Count"=3,"Current"=1836,"Voltage"=11682,"Flags"=7}
"MaxCapacity" = 5125
"DesignCapacity" = 5020

As you can see the Design capacity is indicated less than the Max Capacity which i find strange. Could you please provide me with yours stats?

Thanks


MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on May 27, 2006 10:54 AM

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Posted on May 28, 2006 1:14 PM

| | "CurrentCapacity" = 5109
| | "LegacyBatteryInfo" = {"Capacity"=5109,"Amperage"=128,"Cycle Count"=9,"Current"=5109,"Voltage"=12616,"Flags"=5}
| | "MaxCapacity" = 5109
| | "DesignCapacity" = 5020

Macbook, Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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May 28, 2006 1:14 PM in response to GlovedOne

| | "CurrentCapacity" = 5109
| | "LegacyBatteryInfo" = {"Capacity"=5109,"Amperage"=128,"Cycle Count"=9,"Current"=5109,"Voltage"=12616,"Flags"=5}
| | "MaxCapacity" = 5109
| | "DesignCapacity" = 5020

Macbook, Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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May 27, 2006 7:11 PM in response to GlovedOne

From my Black MacBook.

| | "CurrentCapacity" = 4697
| | "LegacyBatteryInfo" = {"Capacity"=4970,"Amperage"=18446744073709550489,"Cycle Count"=2,"Current"=4697,"Voltage"=12253,"Flags"=4}
| | "MaxCapacity" = 4970
| | "DesignCapacity" = 5020

-Imola
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May 28, 2006 12:27 PM in response to GlovedOne

neom-mb:~ neom$ ioreg -w0 -l | grep Capacity
| | "CurrentCapacity" = 4166
| | "LegacyBatteryInfo" = {"Capacity"=5192,"Amperage"=18446744073709550062,"Cycle Count"=4,"Current"=4166,"Voltage"=11833,"Flags"=4}
| | "MaxCapacity" = 5192
| | "DesignCapacity" = 5020
neom-mb:~ neom$
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