Thanks Jim
I think the battery is going soft.
From System Profiler I have the following.
Full Charge Capacity 3279mAh
Charge 3237mAh
Cycle Count 241
Battery Voltage right after full charge indication 12050mV
So it looks like the voltage is not getting to 12.6 Volts. I will keep an eye on it.
Bill
On Dec 13, 2011, at 12:08 PM, William wrote:
> Hello to the Group,
>
> I have an older MacBook. Once in a while I get a message in the Battery Icon saying Service Battery. The battery seems to be working normal. The charged usage time has gone down but I sort of expect that with age. It is around 2-3 hours. Looking at the System Profiler the battery has gone through 241 cycles.
>
> Am I near the end of the useful life of the battery?
Key battery information can be extracted using utilities such as Battery Health Monitor (free app) or by going to the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen and clicking on About This Mac>More Information>Power. Lithium ion batteries used in the MacBook's early models usually are good for at least 400 charge cycles, although I've got one with over 600 cycles that's still going strong. The other figures you should pay attention to are the fully charged voltage, which should be 12.6 volts or better, and the amount of original battery capacity remaining, which is expressed in mAh or milliamphours.
Lithium ion batteries like those in your MacBook slowly lose their capacity, even if they aren't being used and just sit on the shelf in their original packaging. Thus the reason I look at eBay sales of "new" batteries with a jaundiced -- and experienced -- eye. But you never know. I've got a $30 eBay third-party battery in my 2.16 GHz MacBook that shows a current capacity of 5004 mAh, which Battery Health Monitor says is 104 percent of the original capacity of 4800 mAh.
So your battery seems to be aging normally. The Service Battery icon may indicate a charging anomaly, such as loose connection, or perhaps an internal battery issue. If the battery gets hot to the touch when charging or discharging, I'd keep a close eye on it as that may be a precursor to a battery overheating or even catching on fire situation. Or it may be nothing more than the little "brain" inside the battery being confused. This can occur if you don't practice the Apple-recommended drill of unplugging your MacBook and letting the battery run down once a month or so. Besides being good for a good long battery life, it lets the battery's brain reset itself. I've often seen batteries regain substantial amounts of charge capacity after a monthly full-discharge cycle. YMMV.
HTH,
Jim Scott
Hello to the Group,
I have an older MacBook. Once in a while I get a message in the Battery Icon saying Service Battery. The battery seems to be working normal. The charged usage time has gone down but I sort of expect that with age. It is around 2-3 hours. Looking at the System Profiler the battery has gone through 241 cycles.
Am I near the end of the useful life of the battery?
Thanks in advance.
Bill
iPad, iPhone and iPod apps do not work on desktop or laptop computers. These apps work in what's called Apple iOS, which just works on small mobile devices.
Regular computer applications (yeah, I know: confusing) work on the Mac OS, specifically 10.7 or other iterations.
Apps are sold in the App Store in iTunes; you can buy computer applications for the MBP in stores, online via download (MacUpdate is a good source) or from Apple's App Store, an application that is installed on your MBP that llooks a lot like iTunes App Store (I know, even more confusing).
Some iPad apps have "versions" of themselves that run on your MBP (actually more like the other way around, since usually the MBP versions are more full-featured).
Lots of us would love for there to be a way to run iPad apps on our MBPs or desktops, but Apple is going to make $$ every chance they get and one way to do that is to prevent that from ever happening. Ironically, you can run Windows on your Mac, but not Apple's own iOS apps. Hmm.
Rob
I've had an iPad for several months and love it so much I decided to buy a MBP. ......You sound like me! But I bought the 1st gen iPad and not long after iPad 2 arrived. :-(
But I was so impressed with it and with Apple tech support, that I bought a MBP. And I just bought myself an iPod for my Christmas present to me. And love it. Still learning things about it.
I really like this group, helpful people here but if you want an answer in a hurry, call Apple! Karen
I've always been a Windows user but have now seen the error of my ways ;-) I have a LOT of apps on my iPad and want to transfer them to use on my MBP (I can use them on my MBP, right?). How do I do this? Through iTunes? I've tried doing it through iTunes but it seems it will only sync TO the iPad, not from it. Can anyone help?
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I've had an iPad for several months and love it so much I decided to buy a MBP. I've always been a Windows user but have now seen the error of my ways ;-) I have a LOT of apps on my iPad and want to transfer them to use on my MBP (I can use them on my MBP, right?). How do I do this? Through iTunes? I've tried doing it through iTunes but it seems it will only sync TO the iPad, not from it. Can anyone help?
Others will have to chime in on iTunes and sharing your library - as far as I know you cannot cache your playlists....but you can have your library accessible to 5 devices so you could have two copies.
OSX, like any previous OS in Apples history, is designed to work on Apple hardware ONLY. No clones, (Actually, power computing and one other company made clones a long time ago but never again)
Running windows on mac hardware works very well.
Hope that helps a little....not much, Im afraid.
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert
To: macbook@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:37 AM
Subject: [MacBook] Bunch of N00B questions
Ok. So, I might be new to the MBP, but not new to the whole networking idea, except it's under Windoze. That being said I have a few questions regarding networking and file sharing in a home network environment with the Mac OS X.
(1) I would like to centralize mu iTunes library so my wife and I can share the same set of files, but I'm wondering if iTunes will then look for the MP3s on that file share all the time, even when the MBP is not connected to the home network. If it would look for the file share, is there a way to setup iTunes (or another software package) to cache the playlists locally on the MBP.
(2) Can another computer running Mac OS X (either Leopard or Snow Leopard) be setup as a TimeCapsule, much in the same way you can purchase either the 1 or 2TB TimeCapsule. I don't need to purchase the TimeCapsule as I have more WiFi access points than I really need.
(3) I have a "homegrown" desktop that is currently running Windoze, how hard would it be for me to put a copy of OS X on it with the hardware that is currently installed in it? Micro$oft has a hardware compatibility list for their OS, does something like that exist in the Apple realm and how hard is it to get drivers for the hardware that is out there currently.
I ultimately would like to convert that desktop to OS X and use it as a file server to store pictures, music, video and eBooks as well as use TimeMachine to backup our MBPs.
Thanks for all the help!!
Rob
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