Reviews for Apple Battery Charger

Like the vast majority of NiMH batteries, these are rated at 1.2 volts, not the 1.5 volts that disposables pack. There are a few rechargables rated 1.5v but they are much more expensive than 1.2v ones.

I know. This surprised me too when I went shopping for rechargables. But it's what you get from just about every manufacturer.

Is that a problem? If your use case requires 1.5v, then it would be. But for most uses, including the powering of the peripherals Apple targets them for, 1.2v is a perfectly fine working voltage.

And, hey, you get 6 batteries. So keep a spare pair charging. It sort of doesn't matter how if you have to replace 12x a year (my experience with my mighty mouse on old fashioned batteries) or 14x or 10x.

I have these. So far they seem a good job and I would recommend them to people who don't get too freaked about the calibration of the % power meter.

Devices measure available charge by voltage, and NiMH (or NiCd or Li-ion) rechargeables *never* reach as high a voltage as traditional alkalines. It's a question of chemistry. HOWEVER, the rechargeables also stay at usable voltage longer, delivering their rated capacity. So if your mouse reads 80%, it's because it's calibrated to the old-fashioned, environmently damaging disposable batteries. In terms of economics, you will break after perhaps a dozen charges even though "disposables" are cheap. Apple should be faulted if it doesn't make it clear, but they're not ripping you off. We have been using rechargeables in a Mac wireless keyboard and mouse for years. The key is to have a fresh set always ready to go.

Apple should be faulted for not pushing rechargeables long ago. It's the thing to do, to save money, your sanity, and the environment.

great idea.. however, each time i fully charge 'em there seems to be something wrong.. i don't get full charge when i connect them to the desktop! only 72% to 77%!! dunno if i did something wrong or this is normal..!!

I like it. It's not a bulky charger. So far, works well. I just use the batteries for my magic mouse.

Simply another great product by Apple Inc. looks wonderful with the rest of the minimalistic detail. Excellent charge time and last plenty of time.

Fully charged, these batteries only register 85% at most, in my mouse. I used the mouse editing pictures for about an hour and the % was down to 73%. I don't think that these batteries work very well in my mouse at least. I have a 1 month old 21.5" IMac with the I3 chip.
The batteries that came with the mouse were regular Energizer Alkalines and they lasted the full month and were down to 25% when I changed to the rechargeables. I am going back to Alkaline batteries.

I bought this battery charger, since i had the wireless mouse and keyboard, and the mouse would rip through batteries just like that so i had to keep changing batteries every 4 weeks. So i got this hoping that my problem will be solved and also since it was something that apple makes and i mostly like everything they make. Well when i charged them, it took 5 hours, since the ones that come with it are not charged to full capacity. But even after waiting the 5 hours, i used them and for the keyboard, it was only at 80% and the mouse, at 60%, i do not know why they can not make it to charge at 100%, so that means im going have to keep waiting to keep charging them since they dont charge all the way. Im slightly dissappointed in apple with these batteries. I recommend them but not for those who use their periphals a lot.

Works great. Very small and compact. Perfect for an Apple-lover.

This is how you can fix the blinking light. Simply leave it plugged in and take each one of the batteries out, then place them back in. Hope it works for you like it did for me. Here is my review on the product, This is the slimmest battery charger I have ever owned and it's probably the only one the that works. It's easy to bring this anywhere with hardly taking up any space. It gives a nice long charge but will defiantly be slightly less then any non-rechageable battery, (But you can recharge them so it's not like it matters...) I would say 4.5 out of a possible 5.