Problems with a few days old MBA 11,6"

[mikkeN]

Hi everyone!

The problem is that my battery is losing it's capacity after each charge. I got my computer on Friday, and since then my battery max capacity has fallen to 98%. At first charge I got it to the 101%, but now charging to the 100% is impossible. I have 4 loadcycles now. mAh's look like following: 4630(current capacity), 4680(design capacity)

With the 50% brightness, no bluetooth, wifi on, no keyboard backlighting I can expect no more than 3 hours of use (surfing without flash). I know that the battery life on advertisements doesn't meet the real life battery life, but seriously Apple - come on!

So,
1.) What can I do, or should I just call to Apple Care?
2.) How about the battery calibration? This is mid-2011 model, so I read on the Apple's website that it doesn't need calibration. Is it true?
3.) Any tips&tricks?

 

[Dysfunction]

Personally, I'd call Apple Care. They'll probably have you reset the SMC, possibly the PRAM, and more than likely calibrate the battery. If your machine is still indexing anything, spotlight, time machine, etc that'll munch battery life down rapidly too.

 

[Tarek]

I'd say your battery is running at just about normal rates with wifi on. By the way, my battery life is pretty decent and a full recharge sometimes goes to 100% while sometimes goes 99% and 98%, so I guess that shouldn't be alarming. Also your current capacity is pretty good.