Battery Life and Leopard

1. JackSlash - 10 January 2008

   Hi everyone,

   I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a drop in battery life with leopard installed. I have an original core duo macbook so the battery is aging anyway and im wondering if im imagining a sudden drop in life after installing leopard or wether the battery is just on its way out.

   Cheers

   Jackslash

2. Gregory Weston - 10 January 2008

   Probably a bit of both. At over a year old, your battery is likely showing some significant degradation, but Leopard does impose a heavier load so you're probably draining your diminished capacity faster than you were.

3. Franjo ?ili? - 21 January 2008

   i have leopard on latest gen mbp, relatively new battery on it too... and i don't see any shortening in battery life.. ok, maybe just a little, but not so much...

4. JackSlash - 24 January 2008

   Oh well. I keep checking my battery with coconut battery and its capacity is rapidly diminishing. It seems the battery getting old just co-incided with leopard. Thanks anyway for both your inputs.

   J

5. Tom Harrington - 25 January 2008

   On a MacBook? Depending on how bad the battery is, Apple might give you a new one, even if you're out of warranty. See
   <http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/> for details. They've replaced both of my MacBook Pro batteries this month under this program. In both cases it was the "low charge capacity/runtime... with battery cycle count of less than 300."

   Tom "Tom" Harrington
   Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
   http://www.atomicbird.com/