A laptop computer battery total charging capacity and life diminish as you use your computer. To determine what your laptops current battery capacity is and compare it with what it was when you purchased the laptop install either of the below applications on your computer.
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Microsoft Windows users
BatteryCare - This is a fantastic free utility to display your battery statistics, discharge the battery, and give you details statistics about the battery at any time, as shown in the example picture to the right.
Battery eater - This utility performs a stress test on the battery, causing it to drain to 0. After the battery has been drained, running the utility again gives you a full report including the designed and full charge capacity of the battery.
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If you plan on using the Battery eater test, make sure to disable all power-saving features before any battery utility or testing utility is used.Apple Macintosh users
Coconut battery - If you're using a MacBook MacBook Pro, MacBook Air with MacOS X 10.5 or higher Coconut is an easy to use utility to test your laptops battery.
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