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.
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.
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.
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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.
I use VMWare, works great.
Thanks a million. I was having the same issue.
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.
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.
Apple will replace the battery as well.
Could you provide a little more info on what you exactly did? E.g., did you keep it connected to the charger for a long time , or did you just decide not to use the Pro adapter? Somehow, you were able to boost the Maximum Battery Charge. Any tips, or just “not use the wrong adapter”?
would an 85W charger recharge my MacBook Air faster than the 45W it came with? or does electricity not work like silicon?
@sogrady Yes, but don’t do it. http://t.co/6tnCJJB
@alexkingorg: wow. guess i’m getting another 45W adapter.
@sogrady any verdict on the 85w charger question? I feel like my iPhone charges faster with the iPad adapter, but it’s just a hunch.
@slsweene: @alexkingorg suggests it’s a bad idea: http://t.co/sfmI1Kt