Really interesting.. It would be curious to check also not cheap battery to see if they degrade like budget cells or if the superior quality means also less degradation.
Thanks for testing them old4570, I pretty much had the same results with my Ultrafire 3000's they where around 2200 when new and only a year later they where down to about 1500. They only had about 4-5 cycles on them and where stored at 3.7-3.8v.
I have herd quite a few people complain about the same thing with the Chinese based cells. It's going to be interesting to see how the Hi-Max holds up.
it's interesting seeing the long term results of these batteries. However since they've been through different usage patterns it's hard to compare them definitively. The main thing I gather from your data, is that out of the AW and eagletac 18650 (both of which have had little useage), the AW has performed better.
Some of the data from cpf, also suggest that the older AW perform better than older ultrafire li-ions.
As far as I know they are a Chinese based cell. I opened one up and found no markings. I also tried shorting one out and it got to about 160F but never leaked.