iBook G4 battery

[skasmo]

My ibooks battery will barely hold a charge now. On the better battery life setting I am getting a full 12 minutes. It tells me that i have low batter life when the bar is still at 50%. Do i need a new battery? If so, how much will this cost me?

[mrkramer]

Is it a 12" and did this just happen suddenly? if it did then check here https://support.apple.com/ibook_powerbo ... yexchange/ and see if your battery is covered, if not I haven't looked, but my guess is a new battery will be around $100.

[Turboladdade]

A new battery would probably be what you need, however did this problem just suddenly come up? Typically, battery life diminishes slowly over time - it should not be one hour one month and twelve minutes the next month.

I would go with an aftermarket battery, such as the ones available from Newer Technology:

http://www.newertech.com/products/ibookg414_batt.php

Newer Tech offers higher capacity batteries than original Apple ones, which will give you up to 22% longer battery life then a brand new Apple battery for about the same price.