[OSX-Users] Re: Battery replacement warranty excuses

[Christopher Gutteridge]

The equivalent of a full charge and discharge. It's how they advertise 
their batteries.

I work on the assumption that it costs ECS about 10p per hour to run my 
Mac on battery.


Hugh Glaser wrote:
> Sorry to hear that.
>
> Interesting.
> I have two batteries - The one from 2006 reports 107 cycles, and the one
> from 2007 (which I use more) reports 159 cycles.
> Seems pretty low to me, for the only machine I use.
> I wonder what a cycle is.
>
>
> On 23/10/2009 16:30, "Philip Boulain" <prb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> Well, that was a waste of time. Turns out that the "Geniuses" will
>> not carry out a warranty battery replacement if your charge cycle
>> count is over 300. Say, if you've been using the laptop daily for a
>> year. (That mine is as low as 443 after two and a half is somewhat of
>> an indicator that I've been using old ThinkPads and the trusty EeePC
>> instead.)
>>
>> For those wanting to avoid fruitless trips to West Quay, dashboard
>> widget iStat Pro can show the cycle count; so can a standalone tool
>> called Battery Health Monitor.
>>
>> Needless to say I am not impressed, and given that the "genius'" part
>> in this was to boot off an iPod which made "battery consumed" appear
>> on the screen in a big, red rectangle, I wasn't about to argue the
>> point that it's been cooked for quite some time (literally, I fear---
>> I suspect the capacity loss is actually thermal). Presumably if the
>> hard drive died I'd be told it's out of warranty because I dared to
>> store files on it.
>>     
>
>
>   

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton. 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/osx-users/attachments/20091023/7bfd0309/attachment.html