Macbook Battery Issues

 

I’ve had it with my Macbook battery. I calibrated it when I bought the thing back in July or whenever they were first released and didn’t have any issues with it for awhile. However, over the last month or more, the computer would just die when it had about an hour left on the battery. So, I’ve been trying to calibrate it for the last two weeks. That includes going directly by the Apple Knowledge Base article and running the computer until there isn’t a drop left, which is hard in itself because I only have about an hour of battery life that works now, then it dies. Then I wait about 5 minutes and can restart and use it for about another 20 minutes. Repeat that process several times with the time that you can use it each time getting smaller until finally, finally, the battery light says that it’s indeed dead and I can’t get it to boot anymore. Let the thing charge for hours on end, let it set overnight after it’s charged, and then times like this morning when I have just horrible performance. See the pic below.

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Anything that I am doing wrong? My Macbook isn’t 6 months old, but I suppose the 94 load cycles is pretty close to what it should be. However, just last night I was at 83% battery capactiy and this morning I’m at 58%. That leaves me with an estimate usage (from the menu bar) of a grand total of 1 hour and 40 minutes. That’s even if I get past the one hour mark before it dies.

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