More battery issues
Wondering if I may have a bad battery. I asked about my battery not charging to 100% in Mac OSX forum. Only goes to 99% no matter how I charge it, or discharge it before charging it. I leave the battery in when working on ac power and it is consistently discharging to 96-95 % over a week or so. I use the pb for a few hours at least every day on avg. Thoughts on this? Wondering if I should have this further checked out. Thanks.
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Does it hold a charge, or does it drop too fast?
What kind of life do you get on the battery?
How old is it?
Originally posted by Meeces
Wondering if I may have a bad battery. I asked about my battery not charging to 100% in Mac OSX forum. Only goes to 99% no matter how I charge it, or discharge it before charging it. I leave the battery in when working on ac power and it is consistently discharging to 96-95 % over a week or so. I use the pb for a few hours at least every day on avg. Thoughts on this? Wondering if I should have this further checked out. Thanks.
Do you *always* leave it plugged in? 24 hours a day? Closed and asleep, but unplugged, mine will trickle down to 95% after about 2 days.
On the other hand, while theoretically the battery shouldn't be draining at all while the iBook is plugged in, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a little teeny bit of current drain, by leakage and monitoring, that could slowly knock it back to 95% over a week or two. I've never had my iBook plugged in, uninterrupted, for that long, so I can't say from experience.