[felbie]

I have a powerbook G4 that i bought from my local apple store a month and a half ago, now I saw a post about coconut battery and decided to check it out, so it says that the age of my mac is 4 months, is this since its been manufactured or used for the first time, another reason im concerned is that my MSOffice 30 Day trial came expired,(I have the actual software so its not a big deal) but I wana know if this computer was sold to me used, instead of a brand new one

[Eriamjh]

I think coconut battery calculate the age of your powerbook using the serial number as a date code. That or it gets it from somewhere. My Pismo is 68 months old.

[inkhead]

people waste more time with the stupid utilities that they DO not need to run. seriously if your not getting enough from your powerbook buy a new battery. I recommend a new one every year.

Jeeeze people spend to much time, i think they dont' have real work to do so they try to invent new maintaince and utilities of things that need to be done

[felbie]

Originally Posted by inkhead

people waste more time with the stupid utilities that they DO not need to run. seriously if your not getting enough from your powerbook buy a new battery. I recommend a new one every year.

Jeeeze people spend to much time, i think they dont' have real work to do so they try to invent new maintaince and utilities of things that need to be done

well that was a warm welcome to this forum, i wasnt saying i had a problem with my battery but i was concerned that I had not been sold a new powerbook like i payed for, if i had a problem with the battery after a month and a half i should buy a new one? thats insane..

like i said, coconut battery said 4 months old, i bought it at the end of december, and my 30 day trial was expired when i got the computer, seems kinda weird, and its my perogative to be concerned, I asked a question and if you dont want to answer it then dont, but dont need an attitude because of it

thanks for the useless response, and thanks for the ACTUAL response from the person who was nice enough to answer

[JKT]

Originally Posted by felbie

I have a powerbook G4 that i bought from my local apple store a month and a half ago, now I saw a post about coconut battery and decided to check it out, so it says that the age of my mac is 4 months, is this since its been manufactured or used for the first time, another reason im concerned is that my MSOffice 30 Day trial came expired,(I have the actual software so its not a big deal) but I wana know if this computer was sold to me used, instead of a brand new one

The age is a relatively accurate estimate (to within one or two weeks) of when it was manufactured. Even if it was completely accurate, your brand new computer could still have been a month or so old when you bought it as it could simply have been in the stockroom for that long. FWIW, it is getting its estimate of your battery capacity from the OS - if you use System Profiler to view your Hardware>Power>Battery Information, you will see the info that it culls comes from there. You can also get the same info from a command in Terminal, but I forget what it is. The only thing cocunutBattery has to do is guess the original capacity of your battery (which it will do from the model which it will guess from the manufacturing date) and then calculate the % Current capacity.

Inkhead... what a rude idiot, and to recommend getting a new battery every year? What an utter waste of money and the environment. Mine is still going strong after nearly 2 years and, as too many people assume everyone to be at this forum, not everyone here is made of money and can afford to be as frivolous with it as you.

Btw, if you have Office 2004 make sure you delete the demo - it can cause you problems having both on the same drive (the OS can get confused and e.g. try to open documents in e-mails in the demo version).

[felbie]

Originally Posted by JKT

The age is a relatively accurate estimate (to within one or two weeks) of when it was manufactured. Even if it was completely accurate, your brand new computer could still have been a month or so old when you bought it as it could simply have been in the stockroom for that long. FWIW, it is getting its estimate of your battery capacity from the OS - if you use System Profiler to view your Hardware>Power>Battery Information, you will see the info that it culls comes from there. You can also get the same info from a command in Terminal, but I forget what it is. The only thing cocunutBattery has to do is guess the original capacity of your battery (which it will do from the model which it will guess from the manufacturing date) and then calculate the % Current capacity.

Inkhead... what a rude idiot, and to recommend getting a new battery every year? What an utter waste of money and the environment. Mine is still going strong after nearly 2 years and, as too many people assume everyone to be at this forum, not everyone here is made of money and can afford to be as frivolous with it as you.

Btw, if you have Office 2004 make sure you delete the demo - it can cause you problems having both on the same drive (the OS can get confused and e.g. try to open documents in e-mails in the demo version).

thanks for the response, thats what i needed to know

[chrisford]

Originally Posted by JKT

Inkhead... what a rude idiot, and to recommend getting a new battery every year? What an utter waste of money and the environment...

Seconded. Felbie - apologies for the rude welcome to the forums. Just as reassurance - generally the ratio of inconsiderate to helpful members is a lot better than this thread may suggest.

Welcome to MacNN, etc.



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[Goldfinger]

Thanks for reminding me that my Ti867 is 40 months old