How to Measure the Capacity of a Mac Battery Using Coconut Battery

Does it seem like your Apple notebook just won't hold a charge anymore? Perhaps the battery no longer has the capacity that it once did.
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DOWNLOAD AND RUN COCONUT BATTERY. This application (which does have also have a widget version) will tell you how old your computer is, what the current capacity of your battery is and how many load-cycles your battery has run through.

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IF YOU FIND THAT YOUR BATTERY PERFORMANCE IS LESS THAN ACCEPTABLE, REPLACEMENT BATTERIES ARE GENERALLY BETWEEN $100 AND $

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00. Some third-party vendors offer replacement batteries that claim to be longer lasting than the original and some are cheaper than the Apple produced batteries.