Unboxed: Apple Battery Charger

Today I have a quick unboxing for you. It's an unboxing of the Apple battery charger. I've been considering picking one up ever since it launched. I go through batteries rapidly with all of my gadgets, so I think this Apple battery charger will be a great solution for me. I will have a full review of the product very soon. 

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7-Hour MacBook Pro Battery Experiment

So you bought your new MacBook and you’re not only excited about the stunning design or the revolutionary OS, the supposed 7-hour battery really makes you giddy. Well my refurbished 13” MacBook Pro is advertised with a 7 hour battery, so I thought I’d really put it to the test. Before I jump into my experiment, let me give you some back history on my MacBook Pro. 

As I said, my MacBook Pro is refurbished. I received on September 9th 2009, so 9/9/09. It has a hard drive of 160GB, 2GB of ram with a 2.26GHz processor. Since it is refurbished, that may have some effect on battery life, but I can’t say for certain.

So let’s begin with the actual experiment. In order to give my battery the full advantage, I used these controls: I made sure the battery started out with 100%. I also turned the brightness of the screen down from 2-5 clicks, I know that seems very low, but again, I wanted to give the battery every opportunity to succeed. These are some of the things I did while testing my battery life: I did simple browsing in Firefox, had Tweetie opened the whole time and regularly tweeted, and wrote notes in TextEdit. I had keyboard brightness turned up all the way and Bluetooth turned off. 

I started at 4:00pm. Here are some random time intervals at which I took down the battery percentage.

• 4:02-99%
• 4:08-98%
• 4:35-90%
• 4:45-88%
• 4:54-84%

• 5:00-83%
• 5:26-74%
• 5:37-71%
• 5:45-69%
• 5:52-67%

• 6:00-65%
• 6:23-60%
• 6:36-56%
• 6:52-51%

• 7:00-50%
• 7:11-47%
• 7:17-45%
• 7:25-42%
• 7:34-40%
• *Started watching a video online at 40%
• 7:44-36%
• 7:53-32%

• 8:10-30%
• 35 minutes of inactivity
• 8:45-23%
• 8:52-21%
• 9:00-20%

Those are the results for my 7-hour battery experiment. So in conclusion, with the brightness turned down most of the way and doing simple processes, I was able to get about 5 hours. It isn’t a 7 hour battery, but it’s pretty darn close. I hope you find my extra time and extreme geekiness interesting.

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More reasons to hate the iPhone

I personally have the iPhone and I love it! Great iPod interface, the UI is remarkable, the browser is the best in the biz, etc. Now there is one downside to having all these features, and that is the battery life. Now, give it credit, when you run push email , push twitter accounts, and surf the web, granted you'll have some significant battery lose. The iPhone has been relatively good at managing the battery life of the phone, but is still not up to par. Now in the last Apple event called "It's time for Rock and Roll...but we like it" Apple announced the new Apple OS 3.1 which gave some decent updates and some good additions. Weeks later, Apple is getting countless calls from owners saying they had "remarkable battery lose", now take into account the iPhone battery was already poor. I personally haven't seen much of a change in the battery life, but it is definitely something they need to fix in the future.

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