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Growl to notify you whenever your laptop switches to battery power-useful for those times when your MagSafe connector accidentally gets disconnected-or from battery to AC power. SlimBatteryMonitor ( ), you can customize Watts’ menu-bar display so that it takes up less room than Apple’s version: you can choose to show just a battery icon (which changes to an AC plug when your laptop is connected to its AC adapter), just the time remaining, or just the percentage charge remaining. Watts sits in your menu bar, providing an improved alternative to Apple’s stock battery menu item.

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It also incorporates noteworthy features of a few other portable Gems. Link to an iCal calendar that will remind you each month to calibrate.) Today’s Gem, Watts, aims to make such maintenance both easier and more effective. Link to the company’s recommended calibration procedure and a Notebook-battery Web page provides more information about MacBook batteries, including a

As I noted in ourĮssential Mac Maintenance feature, you shouldĬalibrate your laptop’s battery once every month or so. But that doesn’t mean modern notebook batteries are maintenance free-if you want to keep your MacBook’s battery performing at its best, you need to take care of it. These days, laptop batteries no longer suffer from the “memory effect” and related life-shortening afflictions.

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