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> My 2008 MacBook Pro was able to detect battery problems one year before they started to manifest physically. That may or may not be noteworthy. Despite half
by chrismorgan 3y ago
> My 2008 MacBook Pro was able to detect battery problems one year before they started to manifest physically.
That may or may not be noteworthy. Despite half my family using MacBooks, and some having had major battery problems, I’ve never heard of such a notification as you describe (including at least one where I’d certainly have expected to hear about it). And the similar system SMART for storage devices is notoriously unreliable: I’ve personally had devices with dire warnings chug along merrily for plenty more years, and observed one or two failures that never received any warnings.
- bayindirh 3y agoI used three batteries on that particular MacBook and it always shown a "! Service Battery" warning before things went bad. The battery life, and shape of the battery was indicative of anything, either. Oh, don't bring up SMART. I remember long-testing >100 disks, and most of them passed (it took hours), and all of them failed within 10 days after facing real workloads. We needed a temporary storage for migrating things, but we lost no data, because it was just a copy operation.