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!
AYUB Works fine for me. But the widget version says Loadcycles: 7 (wrong) whereas the app shows Loadcycles: 279 (correct,matched with iStat Pro widget version). (Version 2.6.5)
MAUDLIN I have a 2.16 Ghz MacBook and coconutBattery 2.6.5 shows Current Battery Capacity 5148mAh - greater than its Original Battery Capacity of 5020 mAh. This is from a 19 month old machine which has gone through 136 Battery Load Cycles. I'm using OS 10.5.6.
I've tried several previous versions which have all also shown current capacity at more than 100% original capacity. (Version 2.6.5)
AKROBAT Great app. Does what it says and works fine.
I think Macsintx & Person1229 should notice that a Macbook or Macbook Pro is part of the requirement for this app, which is why it displays wrongly on their iBook G4. (Version 2.6.3)
EASER Then the description on MacUpdate should be changed, since it currenty says "coconutBattery is a tool that reads out the data of your notebook-battery (iBook/Powerbook)." Seems to pretty blatantly say "iBook." (Version 2.6.4)
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Mar 19 2008
MACSINTX On my iBook G4, the values reported seem to be reported in the wrong fields.
-Current Battery Charge is 15392 mAh.
-Maximum Battery Charge is 2504 mAh.
These values are completely wrong. How could Maximum be less than Current.
-Current Battery Capacity is 2504 mAh.
-Original Battery Capacity is 299 mAh.
These values are completely wrong. How could Original be less than Current. (Version 2.6)
NSTANOSHECK There is a dashboard widget included with the latest beta downloads! (Version 2.5.1)
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Dec 22 2007
CSURGI CoconutBattery displays here 371 mAh original battery capacity, 5400 loadcycles... and 12550 mAh current charge, not displaying correctly if the chrger is connected or the battery is charging :-(
It's an Al. powerbook (1,66 GHz G4 CPU, with an originally 5400 mAh battery, after 371 loadcycles...) (Version 2.5.1)
