#Mac air battery how to#
#Mac air battery full#

Your own method for extending that life will be just fine - for you. It's the older style, with the 300 cycle design life.Д«TW, keep in mind that the 1,000 number for YOUR battery is NOT set in stone (where the battery suddenly, catastrophically fails when reaching that 'magic' 1,000 charge cycles! Not gonna happen.) It's just a guide to let you know something about where you might be in the battery's total life cycle.ДЄnd, bottom line is: you use a laptop the way you want, and you want to be mobile, so just do what you do, and remember that the battery _eventually_ will wear out. I use it on battery only a couple of times a week, and run it down completely every month or two. The battery still lasts just as long (remember the 1,000 charge cycles), but the 1,000 number will come much more quickly, eh?ДЇor example, the MacBook battery I am using right now, is about 2.5 years old, and shows 75 charge cycles.

#Mac air battery full#

Charge it overnight (or just till charged), and you will accumulate LOTS of full charge cycles more quickly. The most recent iteration brings with it an Apple M1 SoC while retaining features like dual Thunderbolt 3 ports, a Retina display, and SSD storage. No, I really wanted to say that your battery's life will be shorter - when you always use it off the charger, until it runs completely down, every day, every time you use it. The MacBook Air is one of Apple's most popular products, and indeed its most popular Mac. Scroll about half way down the page for some info about adaptive charging.Дў. My guess is that many Apple laptops will _never_ replace the battery, before they replace the laptop with new, or the laptop becomes unreliable/needs repair for some other reason. So, the battery not only gives you more use (battery time), it also lasts longer (battery life) And, you can use your MBA for quite a while longer, per charge, than you could ever do with your old iBook G4. Shorter life means that you charge your MBA up completely, then use it off charger until it runs completely down each day. There's a couple of years before the real-time reports would be available. Then, you have real time - no one at the consumer level has had one of Apple's new batteries for 5 years yet. It's reasonable to say, then, that instead of about 3 years on the older batteries, you should _expect_ at least 5 years.

#Mac air battery how to#

I think the longer time possible really complicates how to decide what that really means, because age/heat/etc may not mean 3 times longer, but something less. So - in simple numbers, that's something like 3 times as long. The number that Apple uses NOW is 1,000 full charge cycles. Using a rough guess of 100 full charge cycles a year, then it's easy to see 2 or 3 years as a potential expected battery life (something like your experience) Apple significantly changed the batteries in all their laptops 2 to 2 years ago.ДЇirst, you will notice that Apple before would use the figure of 300 full charge cycles, as an estimate of the life of the battery.