coconutBattery is a great little tool for checking the life of your PowerBook (or iBook) battery. It works by doing the appropriate ioreg command and extracting the relevant battery information. It can report the number of charge cycles, the current and maximum charges, and the age of your Mac. I wasn’t even aware all that information was even available to software running on every Mac. It’s not quite time for me to purchase a new battery (I recently did), but this tool will let me keep an eye on it, and let me know when to replace.

Download coconutBattery 1.3

Published by: Christoph Sinai (Coconut-Flavour) Version: 1.3 Jaron’s Rating: Licence: Freeware File Size (Type): 144KB (zip)