life.
Two key points:
-Operating batteries at high temps (like over 85% F) will shorten the
life of your battery.
And things get hot in laptops left on all day cranking away on video
footage.
And heat affects battery life even if you're not running the laptop on
the battery.
-Run a complete discharge-recharge cycle at least once a month.
You don't want to do deep discharges (below 13V) all the time since
that will damage the cells,
but exercising the battery in a laptop that mostly gets run off AC
will keep the battery
alive longer.
On this Apple page you'll find some basic info and a link to a little
iCal reminder that'll help
you remember to exercise your battery:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
Same rules we follow for camera and audio bag batteries (and those are
expensive!)
HTH,
Jim Feeley
jfeeley@gmail.com
On Nov 1, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
> I'm going on two and a half years with the same battery on my
> MacBook Pro 15"
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>
> On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Oliver Peters wrote:
>
> > > Posted by: Alan Miller
> > > Jimmy,
> > > Are you giving up your Mac Air?
> >
> > I will say that I really enjoy the Apple laptops. Nevertheless,
> the current 15" MBP I own has a terrible battery design. I'm on the
> fourth in its life of 4 years. The previous PowerBook G4 was much
> better than that. Same battery for 4 years. That's probably more of
> a Sony problem than an Apple one.
> >
> > I've gone to strictly using an iPad during travels and it's far,
> far better in most cases. Plus, you can pass it through airport x-
> ray without having to hassle with a laptop in the security line.
> >
> > For real work, on the road, a Mac Mini might actually be the ideal
> solution down the road. I rarely need battery power on location gigs
> and it's usually pretty easy to get external monitoring depending on
> how the job is spec'ed.
>
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>
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