More battery woes…

December 24, 2006 on 3:34 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

I’ve been running CoconutBattery since I got my MacBook Pro and was interested in watching the battery degrade over time. Last week I was a little suprised to see the battery degrade very sharply to the point where it lasted for 20 minutes tops and often the Mac would simply die as opposed to normally going into Sleep mode.

Date	Maximum Charge
14/06/2006	97%
17/07/2006	94%
16/08/2006	92%
16/09/2006	88%
18/10/2006	85%
16/11/2006	82%
15/12/2006	26%
17/12/2006	20%

Given i’ve already had one battery go kaput and knew about the battery recall, I checked but the battery didn’t have a recalled serial number. I contacted AppleCare on the Monday and had a very breif call as they didn’t ask to reset the PRAM or anything else, it was simply a case of Q. “Have you calibrated the battery recently?” A. “Yes I do it every month” and that was it a new battery was on it’s way indeed it arrived the next day – so does Apple have another battery problem which is silently being dealt with through AppleCare or am I particularly unlucky in battery life?