Macbook Pro battery life

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: TheStu
Well, that might be part of the problem, it doesn't sound like you are using it on battery enough.

I can't! I cycled the battery about 5-6 times a week for about a month but the health went down enormously!

Maybe you got a bad battery, have you tried contacting TruePower about a replacement? Depending on how old your MBP is, you may have gotten a bad initial battery from Apple (that happened to me) and if your purchase date fell into a specific range they would have replaced it for free.

If that is what happened, and then you got bit again by getting a bad battery from a third party, then that might just be bad luck.

 

[sourceninja]

Sorry guys, i wasn't able to drain my new (internal battery) mbp over the weekend. I got stuck doing fun things and not working for a change.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Parasitic

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: TheStu
Well, that might be part of the problem, it doesn't sound like you are using it on battery enough.

I can't! I cycled the battery about 5-6 times a week for about a month but the health went down enormously!

Trupower? is that a 3rd party one? Do you have the old aluminum MBP or the unibody one?
I actually don't think it's a good idea to cycle your batteries all that often. With Li batteries I am under the impression you should keep them topped off.

Well, by cycled I at least am referring to using the battery off mains until it is dead, and then plugging it in to recharge it. Basically exactly what I am doing now and have done 191 other times since I got the battery replaced about a year or more ago.