1/6/2024 0 Comments Coconutbattery plusThe battery was at 87.5% capacity when I made the screen grab, which would have been 92.2% capacity if the battery was new. Last edited by: rh, Novem01:44 AMĪs you can see, the 5+ year old battery could hold a 6900 mAh charge when it was new, but now can only hold a 6359 mAh charge. If you plan on doing these type of modifications, buy a toolkit like this (which is on sale today for $10).Īs an alternative to using Parallels Desktop for running Windows software, you could simply partition the drive and make a dual boot system that will boot to either macOS or Windows. That procedure is more complicated than simply replacing drives or a battery. If you do not want the optical drive, you can remove it and replace it with a "Data Doubler" and add an additional drive to that MBP: So you could use the SSD as your main drive and use the old hard drive for making backups. It's a fairly new SSD, but I was considering donating money anyway.) (I also went ahead and paid $10 for the upgrade to coconutBattery Plus to check the wear level of my SSD. ( Corrected later) The cycle count was 602, but I pay less attention to that after I discovered Coconut Battery since a battery can wear out even with a very low cycle count. Chris' web page explains his free app in more detail, but here is a screen grab from my mid 2012 15" MBP:Īs you can see, the 5+ year old battery could hold a 6900 mAh charge when it was new, but now can only hold a 6359 mAh charge. I've already mentioned it, but I suggest potential and existing Mac owners install Coconut Battery which is free: It provides more detailed information about the health of your battery than you can get from the OS. Videos are here: Īs for cloning the SSD, use Carbon Copy Cloner which can be found here: There is a 30 day free trial, but I purchased it and use it for backups. You definitely want to use an SSD if you can afford it. How tough is that to do? Can I just get a drive, and clone the existing one by USB? What software is necessary for the cloning? Hey, some have mentioned swapping a solid-state drive in to the Mac.
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