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If it's almost back to the original, that's a plus. The better question about the battery is not the point at which it is empty, it's how long does the charge last in normal use? If it is lasting better than the previous battery, it's a plus. Discharging to 0% is very hard on the battery. Lithium batteries like to stay in the 60-100% charged range and will last a good long time if you do that. It's not surprising it fails to reach 0% as that is very, very bad for the battery. It does nothing to or for the battery itself.
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Calibrating the battery actually just calibrates the circuitry in the MBP to know what is full and empty so that the monitoring will be more accurate for you. I'm assuming the battery is not a true OEM battery, but some third-party version.
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I read up that I could install the latest Nvidia drivers, which I tried.
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I installed windows 8.1, which installed great, but the drivers installed with bootcamp were probably 4 years old. Was pretty excited to play around with it, and play some games, using bootcamp and windows of course. Just about any size drive from either Crucial or OWC should work well.ģ. I recently bought a macbook, that came with the 320m. I have also tried resetting SMC and PRAM which hasn’t helped.Īm I doing something wrong or does this sound like a defective battery?ġ. I have tried to calibrate the battery 3 times so far by fully charging and leaving plugged in for a few hours, then letting it discharge and leaving it unplugged for a few hours each time. I also don’t get the regular “battery low” indication, which I assume is because the battery % reading is not low enough. The replacement battery holds a charge to 100% however it fails to reach 0% and usually turns off when reaching between 6-10%. I would probably struggle to get 2hrs of general use from 100% fully charged to 0% empty.
The original battery has in excess of 1500 load cycles and the “Service Battery” status displays when clicking on the battery indicator. I have already purchased one, however need a bit of help identifying a problem that I am having with it. Can anyone advise on the ram I will need (and if it can still be purchased considering the age of the laptop)?ģ) The last thing I’m looking to replace is the battery.
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With the exception of showing signs of wear and tear (slow loading at times etc), the laptop is still functional and I would like to extend its life a bit longer before having to invest in a brand new laptop.ġ) Firstly, can anyone suggest a good replacement SSD for the stock Seagate 500GB HDD that came with the machine? I’d be interested in upgrading the capacity to 1TB if possible.Ģ) I’m also looking to upgrade the 4GB ram to 8GB. Before you buy an expensive brand new computer.
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NOTE: I am closer to retirement, so my financial situation gives me more flexibility and you should not based you decision just on what I would do.I’ve decided to rejuvenate my 15 inch mid-2010 MacBook Pro with some new parts but need a bit of help with this. A memory upgrade is the easiest and least expensive way to add more life to your Apple Mac mini (Mid 2010). I realize that is going to cost a lot of money, but I do not see a lot of life for the Core 2 Duo CPU. Then I would get a new Mac for the PhotoShop and XCode work. Best: Mac mini (Mid-2010 and later) Over five years after the Mac mini’s debut, Apple turned its innovative energies to making a new enclosure that was sleeker, cleaner, and simplerinside and.
then I would add RAM, leave the disk alone, add external storage, and use it for that purpose (I use a Mac mini as a backup server in my home). If the Mac mini had a alternate use in your home, such as a backup server, media server, etc. The iMac is still being used all day long at work and runs fantastic. I also added RAM and an SSD to a 2009 27" iMac with an i7 quad-core CPU. I used that configuration for a few years, and then just last month I got a new Macbook Pro. I've got a 2011 Macbook Pro that I added RAM and replaced the disk with an SSD. Or save the money, and limp along until you can afford a new Mac. will offer you some good choices for SSD disk replacements. Next would be to replace the internal hard disk with an SSD, which will help a lot with the newer operating system versions. RAM would be the least expensive upgrade option. Then it is not a very powerful CPU these days. PhotoShop is very memory intensive, it will always benefit from more RAM.īut assuming your CPU is a Core 2 Duo, as mentioned here 2GB is way too small for just about any version of OS X after Snow Leopard.