Laptop Battery Analyzer - Mobile Meter

Does it seem like your laptop battery isn't lasting as long as it used to? Is it time to buy a new battery? Laptop batteries don't last forever. They wear out after so many charges and after so much time. But, in order to determine whether or not your battery needs replacing, it would be nice to be able to quantify just how worn out your battery is.

Enter Mobile Meter (download), which analyzes your battery, tells you the current capacity of your battery, and tells you the design capacity of your battery. (PC only. XP works, haven't tested Vista yet)


Ouch. 70% wear lever? Looks like this battery is pretty worn out. Time for a new battery I guess (or maybe a new laptop?).

You access the panel above by right-clicking on the main window that comes up when you run mobmeter.exe, and selection "options".


As you can see, Mobile Meter also tells you at what rate your battery is charging (or discharging), the temperature of your hard drive, and a few other things.

Another cool thing about Mobile Meter is that it's a mobile application, which means you can run it from your flash drive and it works just as well. It's also very lightweight (41K).

Mobile Meter 0.3.1.0 is found on a website that's in Japanese, but here is the english translation page. Download it, enjoy it, and let me know how worn out your batteries are.

Know of other cool utilities like this? Please share in the comments!

I say the glass is 30% full,
Garrett Woodroof