4 tools that will tell all about the health of your battery Mac

In the world there is nothing eternal, and Mac batteries are no exception. Their condition is necessary to ensure that in due time to take action. These tools will help you.

Why do all this

Apple ensures trouble-free operation of batteries in their computers during the 1000 charge cycles. Upon reaching these indicators battery capacity should be no less than 80%. However, this is only possible with proper maintenance and calibration with periodic alternation of work from the network and from the battery.

For all this you need to constantly monitor, not to mention the need for mandatory testing capacity battery and number of charge cycles when buying a Mac in the secondary market. This can be done in different ways: how to use third-party tools, and regular means. We will look at the most popular ones.

Battery Monitor

A small, but quite functional utility. Is free, contains no advertising, except that offers to download other application developer at the first start. Default displays in the drop-down menu the main information about the battery: the number of cycles, charging status, and the exact capacity of the approximate battery life. Tab with details you can check the temperature, energy consumption and other details.

There are customizable low battery notifications and themes. Due to display the percentage of charge remaining Battery Monitor and the work time can replace a standard lamp.

Battery Health

More advanced application, showing a lot of information about the battery, including not only the number of cycles, the capacity and health status, but also age, battery production date and other details. The Battery Health also has a notification and display the charge level of the icon, so replace the standard light and the power of this tool.

The only built-purchase (379 rubles) will provide access to accounting battery recharge cycles and view these statistics by day, week, month or year.

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Battery Health - Monitor Stats

Developer: FIPLAB Ltd

Price: Free

coconutBattery

Another completely free utility that works as a standalone program and does not constantly hanging icon in the menu bar. coconutBattery shows the most important information about Mac battery on its main screen, as well as additional information about the computer. Mac model, serial number, date of birth, battery manufacturer, date of manufacture, firmware version, fault - all this and more can be found using coconutBattery.

Also, the application has the ability to record data on the current state of the battery and view the schedule of change. But that's not all coconutBattery talents.

An equally important feature - the definition of the iPhone and iPad battery health. It works without any jailbreak and perfectly on all iOS-devices. Shows the number of cycles, container and many other interesting details.

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"System Information"

The last option - for fans of hardcore and everyone to solve any problems prefers to use regular tools. As you know, everything you might need makovodov, already a part of OS X. And the battery health monitoring tool is no exception.

Tool "System Information" knows everything about all the components of your Mac, Including on the battery. It will show the number of cycles, and capacity, and the degree of serviceability, and dozens of other things. Should look in the "Hardware" → «Power» and look for the very utility from the Apple menu → «This is the Mac» → «Report on the system."