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DESCRIPTION
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!

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.6.5: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later, MacBook Pro
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Developer:Christoph Sinai
Downloads:86,502
  - Version d/l:15,047
Utilities:System
License:Free
Date:22 Apr 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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coconutBattery User Reviews (31 posts)Write A Review
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Apr 22 2009

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)

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Mar 10 2008

IVANOVITCH  That's better: the previous version didn't match battery cycles with Apple's System Profiler - now it does.  
(Version 2.6)

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Aug 19 2009
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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)

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Apr 22 2009

GREGM  PPC G4 PowerBook, OS 10.5.6

Looks just fine. Info matches actual performance of the battery. Spot on for age, etc.

MacOS X 10.4.5+ is the **ONLY** requirement showing on the developers web page.  
(Version 2.6.5)

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Apr 23 2008
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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)

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Mar 19 2009

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 10 2008

GARYI  My battery is 10 months, it shows my current capacity as higher than the original capacity.

Which was nice.  
(Version 2.6)

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Feb 24 2008

CYATHULA  it would be great if you could somehow make it a dashboard widget!!  
(Version 2.5.1)

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Mar 9 2008

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)

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Oct 30 2007

PDMARSH  CoconutBattery no longer works on my PowerBook G4 1.67GHz Mac running Leopard (MacOS X 10.5).

It runs, but displays nonsense battery cycle counts and battery power levels.  
(Version 2.5.1)

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Nov 11 2007

NSTANOSHECK  Yeah I have the same nonsense. I hope it gets updated soon!  
(Version 2.5.1)

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Oct 16 2007
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PFUSION  Version 2.2 doesn't work with OS 10.3.9.  
(Version 2.5.1)

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