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I'm quite new to Mac and OSX. I have my MacBook Pro now for about 4 month and I know there are a lot of battery-related questions around. I just noticed that after 4 month I have the following battery info:
Cycles: 47
Health: 98% (coconut info)
Condition: normal
I would have the possibility to take the batterie out when I'm working long time with my MacBook and I have the power adapter attached.
What do you usually do? Do you take the battery out?? What are some good/best practices for keeping battery life as long as possible??
On my old HP notebook I used to take battery out when having the power adapter plugged in and when working for a long time. And after 4 years I still have about 1.5 to 2 h battery. What about with Macs?
Hope there's no identical dupe on superuser.
thx
Edit:
Actually, is it normal that I have already a health % of 98%, after 4 month and a cycle count of 47?? I really do pay attention to how I use the battery...probably it's therefore...
Edit 2:
Now, after 2 days I posted here, I have the following statistic:
Cycles: 48
Health: 96% (coconut info)
Condition: normal
That cannot be normal??
1If you have a MBP that's 4 months old, you can't even take the battery out without a lot of shenanigans anyway. – Daniel Huckstep – 2009-09-23T16:56:22.087
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Not MacBook-specific: "Should laptops remain plugged in when their battery is 100% charged?" at http://superuser.com/questions/12838/should-laptops-remain-plugged-in-when-their-battery-is-100-charged and "Is it better to use laptop on battery or on AC power?" at http://superuser.com/questions/12358/is-it-better-to-use-laptop-on-battery-or-on-ac-power Some performance benchmarks with and without the battery installed at http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-macbook-pro-battery-benchmarks,6643.html
– Arjan – 2009-09-24T07:49:41.343@darkhelmet I can...got the model just before the new series (damn..but Mac newbie..so) – Juri – 2009-09-24T08:41:00.553