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All,
I have a question reference my battery in my 13" 2.26 MBP I have the most up to date snow leopard.
I have downloaded many battery monitoring apps, probably my favorite one is Watts. The App is probably irrelevant to my question anyway.
I have been using my MBP daily to watch movies on an external 24" Samsung monitor, plugged into the MBP with a Mini Display Port to VGA adapter. This is retty much the only way I have used my MBP is connected to this monitor for about the past 8-9 months. I generally use my MBP plugged in with it's supplied magsafe adapter, however since downloading Watts I have been using it on the battery every other day or so, but even on the battery I still use the external monitor.
According to Watts I have done 43 battery cycles and my MBP is about 15 months old and it shows my battery to be at 92% life remaining. In my opinion that is sort of low dues to Apple's claim that the battery will retain 80% at up to 1000 cycles.
Anyway, is it killing my battery using an external display on the battery?
Thanks,
Shawn
I have a question reference my battery in my 13" 2.26 MBP I have the most up to date snow leopard.
I have downloaded many battery monitoring apps, probably my favorite one is Watts. The App is probably irrelevant to my question anyway.
I have been using my MBP daily to watch movies on an external 24" Samsung monitor, plugged into the MBP with a Mini Display Port to VGA adapter. This is retty much the only way I have used my MBP is connected to this monitor for about the past 8-9 months. I generally use my MBP plugged in with it's supplied magsafe adapter, however since downloading Watts I have been using it on the battery every other day or so, but even on the battery I still use the external monitor.
According to Watts I have done 43 battery cycles and my MBP is about 15 months old and it shows my battery to be at 92% life remaining. In my opinion that is sort of low dues to Apple's claim that the battery will retain 80% at up to 1000 cycles.
Anyway, is it killing my battery using an external display on the battery?
Thanks,
Shawn