Erik's Thoughts and Musings

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New Battery For My MacBook Pro

I had to go out today and fork out some dough on a new battery for my MacBook Pro today. Unplugged I was only getting about 5-10 minutes before the machine would just shut off hard with no warning. Digging in the System Profiler I was only a Full Charge Capacity of about 700 mAh. The new battery is maxing out at 5580 mAh right now (About 3 hours and 45 minute of charge at my current power settings). I am in the process of doing my first battery drain as we speak.

The place I got the battery was this Mac shop in town called Connecting Point (Thanks Jay for the recommendation). They do sales and servicing and seemed really knowledgeable. It saved me having to go to the Genius Bar at the local Apple Store.

I needed the new battery for next week's WWDC. In some of the sessions it can get pretty crowded and you really have to fight for a plug in the power strip.

Speaking of WWDC, due to interest from people who know I am going, I decided that I am will try and live blog the keynote next Monday. I doubt I will be as high tech as posting any pictures like Gizmodo or Engadget, but probably just some random info.

I wish I could live blog some of the sessions, but you are under NDA for that part of the conference.