battery taking 8 hours to charge?

[Khurram]

during my first two full charges of the air it took over 8 hours to get a full charge from the battery. Is anyone else experiencing ultra long charge times?
I really hope this is only because the battery is new because i wont always have this much time to let it charge!
whats everyone else's experience with charging?

 

[orthodoc]

Yep, I am having this issue too. I posted about this in the "Official MacBook Air problems" thread. It did seem to get a little faster on my third charge. I called Apple Support and they suggested letting it drain completely and then recharging it to let the battery "calibrate". I am running the battery down now to try it again.

 

[cedar]

Mine charged in less than 3 hours. Hope that's not a bad sign.

 

[ahaxton]

Well I won't know until its time to recharge. I charged whatever was left to charge when I got it. Now I have been counting the hours of how long it is going to last during my normal usage.

 

[dwsolberg]

First charge

Of the three recent Apple notebooks I've purchased, every one of them had an extremely long first charge time. I think that's just the battery conditioning. Future charges should be the normal time.

 

[elmo151]

Of the three recent Apple notebooks I've purchased, every one of them had an extremely long first charge time. I think that's just the battery conditioning. Future charges should be the normal time.

agree

I left mine in the charger overnight. now trying to run the battery down to "0"

 

[aiongiant]

so i drained my battery down to 0... and now first charge
can i use it while it's doing it's first charge???

or should i just leave it and not touch or disconnect it from charging? or does it matter as long as i don't use battery power?

 

[NAG]

Yeah, when ever you get a laptop always drain the sucker down and then charge it back up to full. I have to admit that this is taking longer than usual though. Just make sure it is charging/you can use it.

 

[ubercool]

30% charged and two hours to go until full, so three hours to charge for about three hours of use.