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MacBook Air Battery Advice

Since I got the MacBook Air I’ve been charging it with a MacBook Pro adapter at home while using the Air adapter at work and while traveling. THis ended up having some adverse effects:

I even tried to recalibrate it, but to no effect:

I was very disappointed and frustrated that the battery had expired so quickly.

Then last weekend I used the Air adapter exclusively while at WordCamp Utah. Look what happened:

I got another MacBook Air power adapter today - oh yes indeed.

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Posted October 3rd, 2008 @ 12:58 PM

10 Replies

Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:

And maybe a third as a standby?

You still love the Air as much as you did when you posted your first review? I feel like a 2nd gen Air is gonna be my next Mac.

October 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Alex adds this Comment:

I’m not sure if I’d love a Pro with an SSD drive better than the Air or not; but the Air is a great machine.

October 3rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
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October 3rd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Taos Turner adds this Comment:

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October 4th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Brad Isaac adds this Comment:

Alex, great tip. Hey, do you use the boot camp option much? I work in an XP world but love the idea of running OS X as my main OS.

I just wonder how well XP runs on an Air.

October 5th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Alex adds this Comment:

I use VMWare, works great.

October 6th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Acorn adds this Comment:

Thanks a million. I was having the same issue.

October 8th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
redivide adds this Comment:

Agreed, VMWare rocks! I run all sorts of OSes on it, and I think i still have DOS on it for some reason I forgot.

As for the laptop chargers, I think one of the reasons Apple doesn’t use a universal power adapter has something to do with batteries blowing up. Too bad.

October 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Doug Linden adds this Comment:

not sure if this is relevant or not but i found this website which sells batteries for the macbook air:

http://www.ipodjuice[...]products.htm

so it looks like you have a battery option when the one inside dies.

November 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Alex adds this Comment:

Apple will replace the battery as well.

November 4th, 2008 at 12:50 am

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