[snewman]

I purchased my powerbook back in May 2004 from Apple's online store. I feel that I got a great deal on a powerbook. Its a 1ghz 12" with superdrive. The cost at the time was $1299. My question is that my battery life has been pretty poor over the past 2 months. I'm barely get more than 2 hours on a full charge, with brightness turn down low. I ran the following command:

ioreg -l | grep -i IOBatteryInfo

Its showing a very low capacity based upon what I'm reading on the forums here. Here is what it shows:
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3049,"Amperage"=1285,"Current"=2354," Voltage"=11540,"Flags"=4})

Any idea if the battery would be covered under my the warranty on my powerbook? Would I see improvement in battery life with a new battery?

[wunderkind]

(1) Batteries are considered consumables and slow degradation of their performance over time is not covered by either one-year warranty or AppleCare.

(2) If you get a new battery (remember batteries are "perishable" and age whether being used in a computer or sit in a warehouse), then you'll see a longer battery life up to full capacity.