Service Battery: Snow Leopard encourages battery replacement

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• You can achieve something similar on all Dells sans software. If you press the button underneath the chassis you can gauge battery charge, and by holding this same button you can also gauge battery wear.
  
  For the former test, five lights is equivalent to a full charge and for the latter test, five lights is indicative of a battery in need of replacement.
  
  If you have a Dell, try it and see for yourself! Posted by L.Rawlins, UK
• I installed 10.6 saw the service battery in the battery status. The battery health was 55% on 94 cycles! I figured a calibration was needed as well. Did steps 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. When the battery reached 68% of its charge, the battery health jumped back to 94%. Still need to finish the calibration and if this does not work, I am going to zap the PRAM to see if that helps. If i continue to have an issue I am brining it to a Apple Store. I am making sure I am logging it all on Coconut Battery. Posted by L. Bretton, USA
• There seems to be something wrong with this feature: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10134236 Posted by Marc Peeters, The Netherlands
• What does "service battery" mean exactly? why isn't apple clear on what it is they want me to do? how do you service a battery other than throwing it out and buying a new one? Posted by alerutte, AUS
• I noticed the "service battery" message after installing SL. I was getting about 2 hours of battery life. Now, a week later, I'm seeing the computer suddenly shut down without warning after only about an hour. Even after it shuts down if I press the button on the battery it shows four lights. Curious. I'll go to the Apple store and see what they say. This battery is about two years old. Posted by John, United States
• !!!!!!! SOLVED !!!!!!!!!!
  Hi everyone. I've solved this problem on my own.
  
  steps are:
  __double__ calibrate your battery (fully charge and fully discharge).
  2nd time I was charging my mbp it was shutted down and it was god damn long.
  
  Then I turn it on (from hibernation) turn it off again, reseted pram (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379). And that's it. :)
  
  Hope it will help someone. Posted by lokoroco, russia
• i need help with a problem with my mac. i bought a macbook about 3 months ago, so it is still in very good shape. but when i unplug the power adapter it immediately shuts down. This wasnt a gradual decrease in battery life either. It just started doing it randomly. I have the "replace now" message coming up and i have no idea what would cause this to happen.
  
  Can anyone help me out? Posted by Tristan, USA
• is this covered by applecare (extended)?
  
  Posted by Sam Jarman, New Zealand