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Macbook battery health over time
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PostmanPot
Honorary Master
Five of these would be one cycle (5x 20% = 100% = 1 cycle).
Gotcha. Thanks.
$m@Rt@$$
Expert Member
We have the very same machines. How come mine is so shyte?
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I think I won the battery lottery.
$m@Rt@$$
Expert Member
Yeah, that is abnormally good. But mine is like abnormally bad.
Interesting that your machine has more than 10 times the charging cycles.
Possibly a bad batch but anything to do with electrons is very unpredictable.
$m@Rt@$$
Expert Member
Maybe I should start using it on battery more!
Ive only had mine for 2.5 months, not sure how the previous owners treated the battery. Best is to keep it on charge then once a week let it drop to 30% then charge and repeat.
$m@Rt@$$
Expert Member
I definitely use the battery now and again and at least try to if I haven't used it for a week or two.
Do you know if it still has the original battery installed?
According to Coconut it is.
$m@Rt@$$
Expert Member
So over the last week or two, I tried using mine on the battery when I'm home. I gave it a few medium load cycles as well as one heavy load cycle over the weekend. According to Coconut my capacity has climbed from 84ish% to about 90% of original design.
So my conclusion is that using a battery more and more won't make it last twice as long eventually
but actually using it might be better than barely using it at all?
So my conclusion is that using a battery more and more won't make it last twice as long eventually
but actually using it might be better than barely using it at all?I've got a new Air and it looses a few percent battery overnight, whereas my old one would never lose even 1% if the lid was closed for a few days.
How is everyone else doing with this?
All software is standard Apple supply and up to date. Only 3rd party apps are Coconut Battery, VLC, Chrome and Transmission. And none of those appear to be causing a problem. no reports of anything gone wild or using too much resources either.
How is everyone else doing with this?
All software is standard Apple supply and up to date. Only 3rd party apps are Coconut Battery, VLC, Chrome and Transmission. And none of those appear to be causing a problem. no reports of anything gone wild or using too much resources either.
Is power nap enabled while on battery?
SauRoNZA
Honorary Master
A great many OS changes and features happened between the two machines I would imagine?