MacBook Air, first entry ever.

[claudio]

Today we got the first entry for the MacBook Air product family.

<http://burgos.emeraldion.it/mbl/entry/
550b4714407550334e9f2b257c4c6b99>
<http://burgos.emeraldion.it/mbl/list/MacBookAir1,1>

Battery specs seem rather peculiar:

Machine: MacBookAir1,1
Model: MacBookAir1,1
Last updated: 3 hours ago
Manufacture Date: 2008-01-01
Manufacturer: N/A
Device Name: N/A
Voltage: 8158 mV
Cycle Count: 5
Max Capacity: 4879 mAh
Design Capacity: 5090 mAh

The voltage of 8 Volts is totally new and probably means that the
processor and logic board have custom power requirements (I'm not a
hardware geek so I can't tell).

The small size of the internal, non user replaceable battery will
probably account for the not exceptional capacity of 5090 milli Ampere
hour -- which is however higher than current MacBooks'.

Sorry for the missing manufacturer and device name, they will be
disclosed when a MacBook Air owner submits data using
MiniBatteryLogger 1.8.2 or MiniBatteryStatus 2.6.6.

Best regards,
Claudio

[claudio]

On Jan 31, 11:13 pm, claudio <claudio.proc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Today we got the first entry for the MacBook Air product family.

> Sorry for the missing manufacturer and device name, they will be
> disclosed when a MacBook Air owner submits data using
> MiniBatteryLogger 1.8.2 or MiniBatteryStatus 2.6.6.

Update:

Manufacture Date: 2008-01-25
Manufacturer: SMP
Device Name: ASMB017

I wonder if the internal batteries are all from SMP or there are lots
with different manufacturers, like the other MacBooks.

Best regards,
Claudio

[boll...@gmail.com]

Mine is the same model with a manufacturing date of 1-12-08

[claudio]

On Feb 23, 2:00 pm, bolla...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Mine is the same model with a manufacturing date of 1-12-08

Cool!

Would you be so kind to disclose the (real) duration of the battery
under typical workload, and the time required to recharge the battery
at full?

Thank you.
Claudio

[boll...@gmail.com]

The battery has been calibrated -- a full charge usually takes about 5
hours, but there have been a couple of instances where it's much
longer.

The battery life really depends on what you're doing. With radios
off, just doing word processing, I can get almost six hours. On the
web, it's usually four-ish and with the thing going full-out
(Parallels VM and driving an external monitor), it's as little as 2.5.