10.4: View battery cycle count in System Profiler

Jun 24, '05 08:42:00AM

Contributed by: urpaign

Tiger only hintI happened to be poking around in Tiger's System Profiler.app, and noticed that it has a battery cycle count listed, among other battery information in the Power section under Hardware. Knowing this might be useful for people deciding whether they can live with their current *Book -- or at least with their current battery -- until Intel-based *Books appear.

[robg adds: I'm pretty sure this is new to Tiger, so I've marked it 10.4 only; if I'm wrong, please let me know. With prior versions of OS X, you had to use ioreg to get cycle count info, as explained in this hint.]

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