NewerTech MacBook Pro Battery
- 02 Jun 10
I have had the NewerTech MacBook Pro battery fro about 3 months now and it is already better then the factory battery that came with the laptop. The battery was shipped with 98% life, but is has not moved from that percentage for since. With the factory battery, within 3 months it was starting to lose life.
I am now getting about a 5 hour charge out of my new battery. My old battery was at 50% life and it did not hold a charge for longer then 1 hour.
I have bought from NewerTech in the past and their price is a bit high, but it is well worth because of the support and quality of the products. A+ for NewerTech.
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MacBook Pro Battery
- 17 Mar 10
Sigh....
My second MacBook Pro Battery is sucking just like my first one. At about 50 power cycles the battery's life falls from 90% to 80%. This is ridiculous. I have had Windows based laptops with batteries there were a lot better then the MacBook Pro batteries that I have had so far. Right now it is sitting at 82%. From reading the Apple forums and othter sites, others have the same problem. Does Apple do anything about this? No, not really. They say it is normal. I say, 50 or so power cylces in a year (once a month) should be enough to maintain a health battery (Apple even says to do this), but as you can see it is not working.
I give the Apple MacBook Pro laptop batterys a 1 out of 5. Very poor quality when compared to other laptops/batteries that I have used.
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Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB
- 17 Mar 10
The Western Digital Caviar Green (WD10EACS) 1TB SATA (3.0Gb/s) harddrive is quite and has low power consumption which makes it great for HTPCs or general media storage. I am currently using 2 in a Guardian Maximus from NewerTech and the combo has been working flawlessly for 2 weeks now. I had a little problem with mis-matched drives, but fixed that with order a matching drive.
The 1TB drive will format down to 931.5Gb and that is plenty of storage for what I use it for. The Guardian Maximus uses matching drives in RAID-1 (Mirror) to keep your data safe. I would not recommend using these drives a the primary boot disk because the speed is only 5400rpm.
I have been waiting for about a year for the price on these drives to drop to a reasonable price for me and I snagged both for $99.99 from Newegg when they were on sale.
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Guardian Maximus - NewerTech
- 17 Mar 10
I finally broke down and bought the Guardian Maximus from NewerTech a few weeks ago. (Thinking that the price would go down more on it, but for 6months it did not). Once I got the Guardian Maximus I was slightly confused on the size of it because it was very small, and I as under the impression that it was going to be this big external enclosure. From the pictures on NewerTech's site, it looks like it is going to be big, but it is almost acutal size and when reading closer the measurements tell the truth.
So far so good. I had a few issues with the initial setup because one of the harddrives I got for it was DOA and ordered a replacement and the model numbers did not match 100% and the performance was a bit touchy. After last night, I have installed 2 1TB drives that are exactly the same and the rebuild process began. Slow, but understandable because it was rebuilding the 1TB drive block for block (manual reads a few hours to over night for rebuild process).
This morning I checked to see if everything was working as planned and yes, the rebuild process was completed and all my data as back. Before I started the rebuild process I also moved everything to a secondary drive so that if the rebuild process did fail, I would still have a back up.
So far so go. The only thing that I have against it right now is that the fan in the enclosure is too loud, but it needs to keep the 2 drives and the electronics cool.
5 out of 5
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