Hi.. want to ask, should i discharge the batt daily?
Appreciate any tips to prolong the batt shelf life.

Not nessacary. Read this topic: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1903203

Read the replies. I think mod should merge it.

Ok.. thanks...

This post has been edited by 20thCentury: Jun 12 2011, 10:52 AM

My adapter lights sometime the status indicate charged but not showing any lights. But when I pull off n in again it shows green light again.

That's normal, we always seen that. Sometime the green light will be half bright. Just pull the MagSafe off and plug it back. It could be the pin did not align nicely.

Anyone know how much for replacement battery for built-in battery for mbp mid-2010? Any reputable 3rd party battery? I had open mbp bottom a few time for hd and ram upgrade. Can see the battery and I don't think it's hard to do the replacement.. Only need to source for the battery itself.

few hundreds i guess. check on apple malaysia

Hey, starting yesterday my battery keep show not charging.

I did a SMC reset and the LED indicator on the charger turns red but its stuck at 67%. When i remove it and plug it back in it turns green and it states not charging again. This is quite a new battery cause i had it replaced about a year ago.

I'm using Macbook alu late 2008 running 10.7 Lion.

Age doesn't judge the health of the battery. Send it to service center and they will have proper diagnose software to tell is your battery healthy or not.

Thx man, i will do that. Will they take the whole mac or just my battery?

Had a bad experience on my 1st Macbook white. The batt's dead just after warranty.

Now I'm using a 2nd hand MBP (SR). The batt that comes with it still working considerably ok after 546 cycles. But indicates the condition to "Replace Soon". So after long consideration, due to my tight budget and bad experience from MacBook white,I finally bought an OEM batt from www.laptop-battery.my.

Soon to found that this lousy over-priced batt can't be full charge (stop charging at 80%), deplete faster than original batt and the worst is, it suddenly cut OFF at exactly 30% of the batt storage. The original batt still can lasts for 90 mins usage with full charge despite after few hundreds cycles already. The lousy OEM batt lasts only 50~60mins.

The seller claims that their product comes with money back guarantee / 12 months warranty. But when contacted, the seller tends to ignore and argue with his crap.

So lesson learned, buy ORIGINAL.

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Added on August 25, 2011, 5:59 pmI use iStat Menu to monitor my battery.

This post has been edited by @bout @perture: Aug 25 2011, 05:59 PM

Great share!

always stay original

My macbook unibody late 2008 has gone through 207 cycle and its health is at 62% . Is it normal?

not normal. never calibrate?

Apple product must use Apple original accessories la ...dun save that kind of money, ur mac is much more exp than that

i think you need to perform calibration and see how it goes...

anyone knows if i could acquire a plug head for the charger which has a metal contact?

while the longer cable has a metal contact, it's well, long. too long for me.

check out machines.
i saw they are selling just the plug head.
i think it's original apple cos the packaging is really nice!

is is normal, my old 2010 MBP got nearly 300 charge cycles after 1 year usage.
discharge it every time