2010年7月7日星期三

Battery Life to Die For MacBook Pro 2009

 

I was so applied myself to 3G iPhone and Snow Leopard announcements from WWDC this year that I almost missed the gravity of the MacBook Pro concentrated announcements.
Apple announced price cuts on almost all portable computers. The new lineup is as follows:
MacBookMacBook Pro 13-inchMacBook Pro 15-inchMacBook Pro 17-inch
CPUCore 2 Duo 2.13GHzCore 2 Duo 2.26GHzCore 2 Duo 2.53GHzCore 2 Duo 2.8GHz
GPUNVIDIA GeForce 9400MNVIDIA GeForce 9400MNVIDIA GeForce 9400MNVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M
Memory2GB DDR22GB DDR34GB DDR34GB DDR3
HDD160GB160GB250GB500GB
Battery LifeUp to 5 hoursUp to 7 hoursUp to 7 hoursUp to 8 hours
Price$999$1199$1699$2499

If you all want an aluminum body, you should buy a MacBook Pro. There is only one model MacBook and white body, to have been for a while now.
Apple has a 13-inch MacBook Pro(Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch battery) in the lineup to fill the gap, which is unclear to me if the 13 "MacBook Pro uses the same display as the old 13" MacBook aluminum or a variant of the "15-inch MacBook Pro Group, which is superior.
Of course there are different models in each category can be bought, but it is irrelevant to the debate we are having prepared. Look at the line of Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch battery life from the table above, Apple claims up to seven hours of battery life for the new MacBook advantages. The old data are used, be up to five hours.
Apple(apple a1036 adapter) has some clever work by itself. The standard lithium-ion batteries, consisting of columnar cells, similar to AA. The problem with these batteries is that they try to cram a lot of space inside a laptop computer waste (many bottles in a box, you'll end up with wasted space). This lost time translates into larger batteries as needed, making for larger notebooks.
To remain less sensitive notebook drive, Apple began experimenting with the use of custom lithium-polymer batteries instead of standard-parts-ion Macbook Pro battery. Details of the lithium-polymer columnar cells is made (they are rectangular), so there is no space wasted. Not only this makes the batteries more compact, but also gives you greater than you are with all the volume available for the chassis battery.

Apple also pointed out that it is a waste of space on removable media enclosure for the batteries, and so offers Lithium-polymer is no longer a user removable. I suspect that part of the equation has to do more to reduce costs, save space for MacBook Pro Adapter, however.
Apple first used this polymer lithium A1079 battery technology in the MacBook Air, Apple has a very thin battery that allows you to create the sweet form factor of the MacBook Air. Then came the new 17-inch MacBook Pro, without a removable battery. Apple claims the Apple A1189 battery will last for five years before it needed replaced and resulted in up to 8 hours of battery life.

Longer shelf life should be due to an on-battery communicates with the sensor controller to manage the system, which greatly needs of the individual cell lithium-polymer and feed that information back to feel the charging circuit. The result is a few minor changes to the current load perfectly charge on each cell, reduces stress cycles obviously wasted considerably.
Apple claims that affect the cells of 80% of their life after 200-300 charge cycles and special polymer lithium-ion batteries will meet the 80% mark after 1000 cycles as needed. Apple has a unique chemistry of the PowerBook G4 Battery and microprocessor to debt (Adaptive Load) is responsible for managing these gains, but it is a difficult condition to prove, we should wait and see what happens after several years of use.
Resource: Battery Life to Die For MacBook Pro 2009

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