I will always remember the 6th of September, 2007 as the day when both the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti and my laptop battery passed away. Late last night, I noticed that my iBook was showing a big X where the battery symbol is located and upon clicking it I saw the words "no batteries available." Arrrgh! I scoured the support forums for people with the same problem, tried all the recommended suggestions, including resetting the Pro System Management Controller (SMC), PRAM, NVRAM and PMU. Unfortunately, all to no avail. Finally, when I went to system profiler I got the following readout:

Battery Information:

Battery Installed: Yes
First low level warning: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 2285
Remaining Capacity (mAh): 0
Amperage (mA): 0
Voltage (mV): 10248
Cycle Count: 217

After three and a half years of life the battery has finally given up its ghost. This may not seem like a long time but it is equivalent to around 60 years in computer years (calculated using similar premises to those used to calculate dog years and taking Moore's Law into consideration!). R.I.P.

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