Spurred by my recent battery problems, I stumbled upon this little app from Sonora Graphics. It’s called Battery Health Monitor. It’s a free app that allows you to monitor your MacBook Pro, MacBook, PowerBook and iBook’s battery life.
It shows you the original capacity, current capacity, current charge, charge cycles, voltage and some more info. From this you can see how your battery is doing, if you need to change it, etc.
Granted these information can be found through System profiler, I just like it better when there’s a GUI to look at. Plus what am I gonna fill up my hard …read more

I love almost all things about my MacBook Pro, except the battery life. I’ve been reading about it in several forums/web sites and it seems that the poor battery life affects mostly the 2.53 ghz models. The 2.4 ghz model seems to be getting a decent battery life.
However I discovered that it may not be the battery at all. It may be something else. I brought my battery to my neighborhood Apple Certified Service Center to have them check it and they loaned me a spare battery, it was the same. I was still only getting slightly over 1 hour …read more

I use an old Lenovo T60 and like to grumble about its performance. I’m sure the feeling is mutual. I also use a docking station at work. Makes life simpler. Recently, I had a problem with the way it powers the laptop.
The laptop had been docked, but the power supply unplugged due to some neighbourly reasons. When I restarted the laptop, it simply shutdown. When I powered it again, it brusquely answered with a series of flickers across three of its LEDs (power supply, battery life and something else that I don’t remember now) in a most NSFW manner. The …read more