Is it normal for your Macbook performance to hit the fan at low battery levels?

Im at 3% right now (im calibrating my battery per instructions in owners manual) and my computer is acting like a slow kid in kindergarten. I would assume this to be normal for a machine running on its last 3% of power? I will have to wait till the morning to find out I suppose.


Thanks

The machine is probably running in energy saving mode..
Click your battery icon and set it to 'Better performance'.

That should pick the speed up a bit...

... for a few minutes, until it gives up altogether.

Plugging it in to see if it improves rather than trying to run it on 3% battery would be the best thing to do.

I was following the battery calibrations verbatim.



Update: It has been about 7 hours now (the manual suggests leaving your computer sit for 5 or more hours in sleep or with the power off) and the computer is still extremely sluggish. Will try to restart now. Isnt this what mac's are supposed to avoid being able to do?

So I calibrated my battery last night and my overall battery capacity dropped from 100% to 95% when I checked this morning. Is this normal?

pay attention to the entries for the 29th (first and last entry on the list) ->that was the difference of 7 hours of sleep time and calibrating the battery.

Shoot, how do you check your battery entries?
I am such a noob

BlueBacchus said:

Shoot, how do you check your battery entries?
I am such a noob

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Nah not at all...Download a program called "CoconutBattery" i think the latest version is 2.5 which is still a beta phase so a lot of people dont like to rely on it very much. Either way, I find its usefull

Thx Nik. You are being very helpful towards me.

My batteries maximum capacity is actually up got 5280 mAh after 13 loadcycles

BlueBacchus said:

Thx Nik. You are being very helpful towards me.

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No sweat we are basically Macbook bros because we got our computers at almost the exact same time. 1030 thursday morning

So true!