What is your Powerbook Battery life number?

On my 2 year old Ti 667

One battery:

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=406,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=250,"Voltage"=16706,"Flags"=838860807})

Second battery:

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3218,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=2395,"Voltage"=16081,"Flags"=838860807})

looks like one of my batteries has had it.....kinda knew this as I was only getting 30 to 45 minutes one the first battery.

Now they only question is, do I replace it with one from apple for $116.00 (education discount) or do I buy newertechnology's new replacement battery for $139.00? (The newertechnology battery claims 17.5% more capacity)
 
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3043,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=3043,"Voltage"=16452,"Flags"=838860805})
PB Gigabit 550MHz

I got 6 hours off this a few months ago with the screen turned off plugged in to my stereo with itunes playing - Tends to last about 3-4 hours with the screen dimmed with normal usage

Try darkshadows recommendation ioreg -lw0 | grep -i IOBatteryInfo that should wrap the line around
 
"Capacity"=3888,"Amperage"=1172,"Current"=2721,"Voltage"=16142,"Flags"=4

G4 iBook, 1Ghz, battery shows 68% charge. Hmmm, interesting. I'll have to check my spare battery as well as the replacement battery I've gotten for my old clamshell.
 
Capacity"=10000,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=0,"Voltage"=0,"Flags"=838861191

Interesting difference on the new spare battery I just plugged in. Have to see what it's like once it's been charged up, though I'd love to have that extra capacity compared with the original being under 4,000.
 
"Capacity"=3600,"Amperage"=1141,"Current"=2888,"Voltage"=16169,"Flags"=4

That's for my clamshell Graphite SE with a new battery I bought for it recently. However when I tried it with the original battery (plugged in even) I didn't get anything, the Terminal just kept going back to the command line. Guess that confirms that that sucker is deader than Abe Lincoln.
 
I got
({"Capacity"=3784,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=3776,"Voltage"=12464,"Flags"=1090519045})

on a 2 month old 15" powerbook. It seems like my battery is dying quickly. Should I call Apple and tell them I want a new battery?
 
FYI, I just replaced my PowerBook battery under warranty yesterday (it was a huge hassle to get the Apple Store employees to go through with it).

My old battery was very random:

Couple months ago
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3702,...
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3659,...

July 8, 2004
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3184,...

July 10, 2004
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=2985,...

July 17, 2004
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3347,...

Some days I could get 2.5 hours even with all the extras on (like backlighting, bluetooth, wireless, etc.). Other's I'd be lucky to get 2 hours and sometimes the computer would just go to sleep at 40%. The Apple Store "Geniuses" (yeah right) interrogated me 4 times (and again after they gave me the new battery) trying to make it look like I was the one that was doing something wrong... it couldn't possibly be the precious Apple hardware. :D

Anyway, new battery got about 3 hours on the first full charge (drained it down to calibrate it just now). I'm curious to see how consistent the new one is. Here's the results of the same command (ioreg -lw0 | grep -i IOBatteryInfo):

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4455,...
 
IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3944,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=3868,"Voltage"=1239$

Al PowerBook purchased in Jan '04
 
IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3637,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=3628,"Voltage"=12451,"Flags"=1090519045})

about 1 yr old Al powerbook ... oh well ... should i recalibrate it?
 
an exactly 1 year old 1GHz TiBook
Code: 
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3905,"Amperage"=3,"Current"=3903,"Voltage"=16717,"Flags"=4})
 
15" AlBook, Manufactured in March (according to the serial number):

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4026,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=4010,"Voltage"=12448,"Flags"=1090519045})

It was higher I thought, about a month or two ago, when I first did it.
 
IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4200,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=4113,"Voltage"=12504,"F$

12" PB about two months old.
 
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4149,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=4149,"Voltage"=16711,"Flags"=838860805}

TiBook 2.5 years old ;)




Oh yeah the battery is only 1 month old...
 
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