Just bought 3rd party battery, after 5 cycles, the MacBook gives me service battery.
It really frustrates me because I just bought it about two days ago and it's already at service battery
I run Mac OS X Lion
is there any way for it to go away, or at least make my battery run normal again?
I have downloaded it, because of searching the problem before hand.
That is what it says, it doesn't say anything on that program that it needs to be serviced...
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Can you iBook G4 folks with battery savvy please check out my iBook G3 question:
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As reported on MacFixIt.com Oct. 26, 2005: "Although they sometimes offer a higher purported capacity, the downside of many third-party batteries is that when the system reaches a point of low power where it would normally automatically go to sleep and preserve unsaved data (with an Apple battery), third-party batteries will allow the machine to simply shut off causing you to lose unsaved data if you aren't careful enough to put the machine to sleep manually when power is running low."
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