Macbook (unibody) battery
I just got a Macbook (unibody) on Wednesday and have had to charge it about 3x. Each time I went to charge it, the battery was nearly dead and each time it took me close to 6 hrs for it to fully charge (green light on MagSafe connector).
This seems excessively long to me. Does it take this long for any you? Is my battery possibly bad? Also, on a full charge, the battery only seems to last about 4 hrs, shy of the 5 hrs that Apple lists on their site.
This seems excessively long to me. Does it take this long for any you? Is my battery possibly bad? Also, on a full charge, the battery only seems to last about 4 hrs, shy of the 5 hrs that Apple lists on their site.
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If you go to System Profiler and click on Power it should give the status of the battery (good, not charging, etc). That may indicate a problem.
This is my very first Mac so I'm still getting acclimated with OS X. Any further tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated. Out of curiosity, how long does it take you guys to fully charge your Macbooks?
however that a lot longer than the 2 hours my friend gets out of his Dell laptop...
The charging rate of the battery can be observed by opening
System Profiler->Hardware->Power: Amperage
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