Apple Battery Charger

The charger has a white design, with a small indicator light on top that glows amber while the batteries are charging, and green once they are charged. It can charge two NiMH batteries at once,[2] and takes five hours for a full charge.[5]

Apple's main marketing claim for the product was that the charger had a standby power draw of 30 mW, compared to an industry average of 315 mW.[2][6][7]

The charger was sold with six rechargeable AA batteries that use low self-discharge NiMH technology,[8] have a silver design and no Apple branding, and have an advertised capacity of 1,900 milliampere-hour (mAh).[2] Czech website SuperApple identified the batteries as likely being rebranded Eneloop HR-3UTG 1.2 volt batteries manufactured by Sanyo.[8][9]

According to Apple, these batteries were designed to have a service life of up to ten years and retain 80% of their capacity even after being stored for a year.[10] Engadget says the Sanyo Eneloop batteries are able to retain 75% of their charge after three years.[8]

Engadget criticized Apple for selling their charger and six batteries for $29 when Sanyo sold a charger and eight batteries for the same price.[8] SuperApple noted that Apple's then-current wireless peripherals used two AA batteries, but older Apple Wireless Keyboards used three; Apple's charger could only charge two at once.[5]

Apple marketed its battery charger as environmentally friendly due to a lower standby power draw, although Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering professor Gerbrand Ceder criticized Apple for shipping peripherals that require disposable batteries, instead of non-removable lithium-ion batteries like many of Apple's competitors.[11]

• Rechargeable battery
• Magic Mouse
• Apple Wireless Keyboard