On: The De-evolution of My Laptop Battery

[sengstrom]

How do you even measure max capacity of the battery? Is it by keeping track of the current balance or is there some other direct physical way to do it?

Measuring once per minute seems like massive overkill for a property that changes on a timescale of months, but the interesting question to me is - does it do anything to the life of the battery?

[cliveowen → sengstrom]

Mac OS X makes the stats available directly from the battery.

[sengstrom → cliveowen]

Yes, but how does it arrive at the number it reports?

[rocky1138 → sengstrom]

One assumes by the mAh.