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coconutBattery is a tool that reads out the data of your notebook-battery (iBook/Powerbook). It gives you live feedback, what's going on in your battery (not only a snapshot like other tools).
It shows the current charge of your battery as well as the current maximum capacity related to its original. If coconutBattery detects that you have connected the wrong charger (i.e. an ibook-charger plugged in a powerbook) it will warn you! That's a cool feature!
Of course you are able to save the current maximum capacity of your battery - with just one click!
It shows the current charge of your battery as well as the current maximum capacity related to its original. If coconutBattery detects that you have connected the wrong charger (i.e. an ibook-charger plugged in a powerbook) it will warn you! That's a cool feature!
Of course you are able to save the current maximum capacity of your battery - with just one click!
What's New
Version 2.7.2:
- Added an export to csv option of the saved battery data (for import to Numbers or Excel)
- Fixed a bug where coconutBattery did not work correctly on some MacBook Pros
- Minor bugfixes
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
coconutBattery User Discussion (Write a Review)
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coconutBattery is a tool that reads out the data of your notebook-battery (iBook/Powerbook). It gives you live feedback, what's going on in your battery (not only a snapshot like other tools).
It shows the current charge of your battery as well as the current maximum capacity related to its original. If coconutBattery detects that you have connected the wrong charger (i.e. an ibook-charger plugged in a powerbook) it will warn you! That's a cool feature!
Of course you are able to save the current maximum capacity of your battery - with just one click! coconutBattery uses Apple's new and really powerful technology named "CoreData" to realize that.
Finally coconutBattery calculates the age of your Mac exactly! So you can derive the age of your battery. And last but not least: coconutBattery is Universal Binary (you can run it on Intel-Macs! - cool!) and it is complete localizable!
It shows the current charge of your battery as well as the current maximum capacity related to its original. If coconutBattery detects that you have connected the wrong charger (i.e. an ibook-charger plugged in a powerbook) it will warn you! That's a cool feature!
Of course you are able to save the current maximum capacity of your battery - with just one click! coconutBattery uses Apple's new and really powerful technology named "CoreData" to realize that.
Finally coconutBattery calculates the age of your Mac exactly! So you can derive the age of your battery. And last but not least: coconutBattery is Universal Binary (you can run it on Intel-Macs! - cool!) and it is complete localizable!
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jsh02_nova reviewed on 10 Jan 2012
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Bensonn reviewed on 21 Oct 2011
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Sanchai reviewed on 15 Oct 2011
Version 2.6.6 work fine. Please fix and make it work with my Macbook pro. I want to use 2.7.1
I cannot find anywhere to write to developer, and that;s why I have to post a comment here
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This contact information is at the bottom of his website: www.coconut-flavour.com
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Mookzmom reviewed on 15 Oct 2011
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Commercial-Resource-Management reviewed on 11 Mar 2011
I check coconutBattery every evening prior to shut down to estimate how best to use the battery the following day, and have also been monitoring capacity at full charge over time, allowing to discharge when capacity starts to drift lower, and at half charge - same thing - watching for a decline or improvement in capacity.
When needed, allowing to discharge fully, set over night then recharge fully.
By also running the battery 20 - 40% during the day, and down to 4% a couple of times, capacity is now back up over 100% to 102% or 6650 mAh capacity against an original designed capacity of 6500 mAh.
Very cool.
Very useful for free software.
Daniel M. Dreifus
http://thousandeveryday.com
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jr_nevers reviewed on 11 Jan 2011
in fact, well, I avow... I couldn't compare exactly right now the 2 above versions; I could only compare these 2 products on 2 PPC macs (I had no Intel mac available), one iBook G4 with OS 10.4.11 et the other Powerbook G4 with OS 10.5.8; CoconutBattery v2.7 works only on Intel macs; so I could only use respectively:
OS 10.4.11/iBookG4 CoconutBattery v2.6.7 & Battery Health Monitor vv1.5
OS 10.5.8/PowerbookG4alu CoconutBattery v2.6.7 & Battery Health Monitor v1.2 to v1.5
The key issue is that Battery Health Monitor, whaterver the version, cannot read (at all or partly) the battery status data on the PowerbookG4alu as the developer Sonora Graphics acknowledges candidly on its website (recommanding to use older versions such as v1.2, but it didn't work at all in my case)... while CoconutBattery works well in all cases without a glitch !
For the record (yes I know it shouldn't be here ^v^ !), similarily I used the excellent "iStat pro" v4.9.2 widget by http://islayer.com/apps/istatpro/ on both mchines & OS without any problem; iStat pro has, on top of many useful indicators about your machine, has a small section with your battery key figures
(just a very minor issue: below the key battery figures, a bit weird and rather unuseful (?) large white bar which I suppose is some kind of visual indicator (?) I say weird because this bar is topped by the word "Unknown" on the PowerbookG4alu ? and this word becomes "Charged" on the iBookG4 -anyway I can, amongst the figures, read "charge: 100%"-, but this bar may mean something else ?)
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Thyx reviewed on 06 Dec 2010
Especially the timeline (click on the right-side arrow)
Only improvement I could think of is an automatic timeline.
(btw, my non-Apple battery works as charm and has 101% left of the original capacity)
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Jazzyguy reviewed on 21 Feb 2010
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it may be more a little more efficient to contact the developer than us here...
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Dorkypants reviewed on 21 Feb 2010
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Ayub reviewed on 19 Aug 2009
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If you have a PPC, stick with your old one !
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fat_carlo rated on 12 Mar 2012
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Fabio Milocco rated on 06 Dec 2011
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Loukash rated on 05 Dec 2011
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Tommy.andersson rated on 14 Oct 2011
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Jolly_joker rated on 26 Feb 2011
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AndresAn rated on 20 Jan 2011
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Loukash rated on 02 Dec 2010