About Battery Cycle Count

The Cycle Count is a number that refers to how much the battery is used. A single load cycle is the cumulative usage of 100% of the battery’s capacity. For example, discharging to 50%, charging to full, then discharging to 50% the next day will equal 1 load cycle.

Current: The number of load cycles that your battery has completed.

Factory: The number of load cycles for which the battery was designed. Apple declares that the above percentage should be 80% or greater until the current load cycle count reaches this number.

Percent of Lifespan: Expressed as a percentage, the number of load cycles your battery has completed compared to the maximum load cycles the battery was designed to achieve.

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About Battery Condition

The Battery Condition reported in the Battery Information panel of FruitJuice comes directly from Mac OS X.

It will report one of 5 things: [Read more…]

About Battery Capacity

The capacity section shows you the numbers behind the top percentage on the Battery Information screen. The “Current” and “Factory” numbers are expressed in milliampere-hours (mAh). There is a very technical explanation of what this is over at Wikipedia, but essentially the higher the number the longer a battery will last.

Current Capacity: Shows the current maximum capacity of the battery.

Factory Capacity: Shows the maximum capacity of the battery when it left the factory.

Percent of Original: Shows your battery’s current maximum capacity expressed as a percentage of the maximum capacity when it left the factory. Apple says that for a properly treated battery that this number should remain at 80% or higher at least until the current number of load cycles reaches the factory load cycle count.

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About Load Cycles

 

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