Baby Your Battery

Baby Your Battery

Posted 02/28/2006 at 4:00pm | by Kyle Wiens

Coddle your battery, and it will serve you well.

 

WHAT YOU NEED

> PowerBook, iBook, MacBook, MacBook Pro, or iPod
> A thirst for knowledge

 

Lithium-ion batteries (LiIon for short) are amazing creatures, packing a much higher energy density than the nickel-based cells of yore. What you do on your PowerBook, iBook, MacBook or MacBook Pro is your own business, but if you follow these tips, you can do it for longer. Bonus: Most of this info holds true for iPod batteries as well.

 

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Anton

March 27, 2007 at 9:36pm

To view the whole output from ioreg, use

ioreg -l -w 0

This will prevent the truncation.

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