Battery Prolonger For Mac

Battery Prolonger is a minimalist Mac OS X application based on battery charging techniques proposed by the batteryuniversity.com website. The website is sponsored by Cadex Electronics Inc, and aims to provide relevant information about different types of batteries, charging and discharging methods, and other related subjects.

Since heat can damage your battery faster, and completely discharging a battery slowly reduces its efficiency, the batteryuniversity.com website advises you to only partially discharge and change your batteries: you should disconnect them from the power source when they reach 80%, and connect them again once you drained them to about 40%.

The Battery Prolonger application helps you apply this technique that supposedly prolongs the battery life to up to 4 times the average, to your portable Mac computer.

To achieve that, the utility monitors your battery status and displays notifications when the limits are reached. However, you are not constrained in any way to actually follow the instructions: if you are not around a power source, you can continue your work unobstructed.

The Battery Prolonger application comes with very few personalization options: via the Preferences you can choose to start the application at login, and to enable the audio notifications.

The same area offers you the possibility to adjust both the charge and discharge limits, expressed in percents, via user friendly slider bars.

Battery Prolonger is a minimalist, unsophisticated Mac OS X status bar application that can help you apply the partially charging and discharging technique to your own portable Mac computer, without imposing any constraints.

The Battery Prolonger  application tries to follow the instructions provided by Isidor Buchmannm, the founder of Cadex Electronics Inc, on the  batteryuniversity.com website.