Over the weekend, my two-year-old MacBook Pro got the dreaded "service battery" warning. It's the most useless thing — every MacBook I've owned has gotten it at some point, and it never offers any sign at all about what could be wrong. I dove into the battery diagnostics, and there's nothing I can find to offer me any direction. Battery cycles are still on the low end. Total capacity has diminished a good amount, but not so much to be a problem. So where's the warning coming from? We'll see if I can figure it out, but my guess is this: that "service battery" alert will stay there for the next few years, until I finally buy a new laptop. -Jake |