4 Cycles, 5446 mAh Capacity
After a “proper” recharge-full discharge cycle, my MacBook Pro battery is reporting 5446 mAh capacity.
MacBook Pro Kernel Panic with External Monitor
Wow. I keep finding more things wrong with this Intel machine. Now, if I plug in an external monitor (something I had not yet tried at home with my Cinema Display, but which I just tried now with a Princeton LCD19D flat panel display), I get a kernel panic. If an external monitor is plugged in when I reboot, I get a kernel panic. I’ve sent the crash report to Apple, but who knows if anyone will ever see it? Meanwhile, I’m now stuck without being able to use my big screens.
Here’s the crash reporter info and the unfriendly message I sent along with it to Apple (I have no tolerance for crap like this):
MacBook Pro Sleep Seems to Have Issues
I decided to run my battery down to do the calibration as suggested in the MBP manual. I got one warning about imminent sleep, and dismissed it. As I was copying a folder, the Mac went into forced sleep right in the middle of playing the “copy complete” sound. It repeated this sound a half-dozen times before the system finally went to sleep.
It darkened the screen, the little white LED came up dully (as it does when the screen’s asleep), and then eventually it went into full sleep mode.
I tapped the shift key, to make sure it was really asleep. On my PowerPC AlPB, this is ignored. On this machine, it woke right up. I used it for a few more minutes, and then it completely shut down losing anything I had not yet saved. This was pretty bad.
I’ve now launched XBattery and plugged it in. Let’s see if it gives us any more juice. Currently: 5419 mAh capacity, 3 cycles.