If you travel a lot and you want to keep your MacBook Air running for a long period of time, the best solution is to purchase a portable battery for your laptop. You will find many portable batteries on the market, but the careful because a lot of them could damage your laptop’s battery and also your laptop.

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The best on the market is the HyperMac which you will find it on Hyper Store.com. This is the world’s fist and only external battery that works with all Macbook models. The battery is available in 4 sizes and you can also charge your iPhone 3G S, iPhone 3G and other mobile USB devices. Depending on the size you choose from: 60Wh, 100Wh, 150Wh and 200Wh, you can charge for MacBook Air for more than a day or if you choose one for your iPhone, you can recharge it for 52 times.

The HyperMac External Battery comes with a USB port so you can charge also your iPhone while you are charging your MacBook Air. The laptop will see this portable battery as a connection to its original adapter, so HyperMac provides the power your device needs and also recharges the internal battery. You can check the battery level of HyperMac by looking at the lighted indicator.

With this external battery you can extend the life span of your laptops internal battery which is a very important thing considering that the latest MacBooks have built-in batteries and if something goes work with the battery you cannot changes it by yourself, you need to pay a service to do that.

These external batteries come with one year warranty and can be recharged up to 1000 times. They also look great with their nice aluminum housing that match the color of your MacBook and they come with different cables for all Macbook models. They have the capacity to determine which MacBook is connected to them and adjust the charging power.

On the website mentioned above, you will also find HyperMac Nono which is the perfect portable battery for your iPhone and iPod. This comes with a built-in charging cable, so you don’t have to carry with you the original cable from your device. These external chargers come in all iPod’s colors, which means that you can choose from 9 nice colors the one that matches your device.

HyperMac Micro is an external battery that provides more time for your device than HyperMac Nano. This one is also available in 9 different colors and it works with iPod, iPhone and other USB devices. HyperMac Mini is the largest external battery for your iPod or iPhone and you can find it at a price of $119.95. All these products are manufacturer by Sanho Corporation located in Sunnyvale California (United States of America), a company which makes IT accessories.

The battery in the new MacBooks is made to be smart. This is the longest-lasting Macbook battery ever made which keeps your Macbook running for about 7 hours on a single charge and almost 8 hours if you have the 17-inch Macbook Pro. The life of the Macbook’s battery is so long because is has a new and innovative charging technology which make the battery to last for about 1000 recharges.

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To increase your laptop’s battery life, Apple doesn’t use lithium-ion battery because the cells of this battery have a cylindrical shape which takes a lot of room and looks like a normal AA battery, but they use lithium-polymer battery. These types of batteries take less space, so this means that the laptop will be thinner than the lithium-ion battery laptops and, also lightweight.



The long life of the MacBook Pro battery is given, also by the fact that the battery is fully integrated into the laptop, because in not a removable battery. This means that all the space use in traditional removable batteries, like: notebook enclosure, all the infrastructure for a separate battery compartment is used in MacBooks to create more space for the battery. This is why the battery is bigger and the capacity of Macbook batteries is greater.

The battery is your MacBook is very smart, because it has a built-in chip which communicates with your laptop in order to reduce the tear and the wear of the battery by making adjustments to the charging current. This is why the battery of your MacBook has a life of almost 1000 recharges when the other laptop batteries have a life of 600 to 800 recharges or less. To maximize the battery life of your laptop you should keep in mind the following suggestions: the Software Updates installation can sometimes improve the battery life of your laptop.

Once in a while, you should consider to let the battery discharge and to let your MacBooks run until it goes to sleep or shuts down because it don’t have enough battery, then plug in to recharge. If you have a presentation and you need al the time the battery can give, you should keep the brightest level of your laptop to the minimum. You can also turn off the backlight of the keyboard. If you are not using the Bluetooth function or the Wi-Fi function, you should turn them off because they use a lot of power.



The embedded battery is a MacBook is a good idea because the battery lasts for a long time, but is not such a good idea if you need to replace it, because after 4-5 years each MacBook battery needs to be replaced because they are made to last forever. And if you want to replace it, you need to go in an authorized service, because doing this on your own can damage your laptop.

The battery of your laptop is a consumable one, which means that after its cycle ends you will need to replace it. The laptops batteries last for about 600-800 charges and if we talk about Apple MacBook it can last longer.

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Apple Store is the place where you will find a lot of battery replacements for your MacBook Pro. If you replace your laptop’s battery, you will not lose the data on your hard drive but for your piece of mind, you should make a back up of your information. The best way to replace your MacBook Pro battery is to take the laptop in a service.



Apple gives you the possibility to do that, offering you battery replacement services: you can choose between Apple Retail, Apple Mail-in or Apple Authorized Service Provider. If you choose Apple Retail the replacement of your laptop’s battery will be made in the same day (if you have an appointment) and if you choose Apple Mail-in it will take between 3-5 business days.

The best thing about replacement batteries purchased from Apple Store is the fact that Apple offers you 1 year warranty for the battery and it is the longest warranty time you will find. Apple is not responsible for any loss of information, data or applications, so before you take the MacBook Pro to the service, you should make a back-up of your data.

If you try to replace your self the battery, you should know that you could lose the warranty of your laptop and you can also damage it, which is why Apple recommends that battery replacement should be performed in an authorized service.You will find many replacement batteries on Apple Store and the prices are different depending on your laptop, if it is a 15-inch laptop, a 13-inch laptop or a 17-inch laptop. If you don’t want to purchase from Apple Store, you can find other website online which sell battery replacements for laptops.



One manufacturer is NewerTech – they provide battery replacement for all Apple Macbooks and also other brands.  The batteries are called NuPower and the manufacturer says that the batteries are one of the best on the market and they are also environmental friendly (mercury free and lead free). We don’t know about that, so if you have used batteries for this manufacturer, please tell us if they are good, if they give you a lot of hours without charging or if they are bad. So the best thing you could do if your MacBook Pro battery is not good anymore is to take it to the Apple service or to any other authorized service. This deal will cost you about $180 plus the tax for the replacement, but with this amount of money you know that your laptop is in good hands.