If you have a MacBook or MacBook Pro, your battery is vital to the usefulness of the machine. While Apple offers you basic information about your battery life, little information is displayed about the overall health of the battery. This is where coconutBattery comes in.coconutBattery is a simple utility that goes beyond just showing you the current charge of your MacBook’s battery. You might say it gives your battery a complete physical exam. coconutBattery can show you the current maximum capacity of the battery compared to what it was when you first took it out of the box; perfect for anyone who’s thought “the battery used to last longer.”
coconutBattery offers a wealth of information about your laptop's battery
The diagnostics don’t stop there. You can get a better idea of how many complete charge cycles are left in the life of your battery by checking the loadcycles (how many times you’ve fully charged your battery) – useful because every battery has a set amount of full battery charges before it just doesn’t charge anymore.
If you’re a multiple-laptop family, you’ve no doubt been faced with the question “is that the MacBook charger or my wife’s MacBook Pro’s charger?” coconutBattery can let you know if you’ve plugged your laptop in with the wrong charger.
coconutBattery is a free, Universal Binary you can download here.
Thanks for the info, Mark. Nice to see a built-in visual method to get this info… but like you said, the UI 😉
Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info > In CONTENTS see POWER.
Plenty of info about your battery… just less fancy UI.
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The ability to see the current battery capacity is most helpful – especially to those who still have Apple laptops with removable batteries.
at first I though you could get to store power on a certain part of a coconut. Seriously though, this program is nifty! Very useful especially for those who travel a lot coz they use the battery most of the time rather than always looking for an outlet to power it up.