My wife's 13" Macbook is on the original battery after six years. Life
is not what it used to be, running about 90 minutes or so, but for now
that's working ok for her bouts of surfing on the couch. We didn't do
anything special. Mostly ran on mains power and would sometimes run the
battery down flat. Running the battery flat happens more often now days
but I'm also trying to avoid putting any more money into a machine of
this vintage.
CB
On 7/18/13 2:37 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Phil and Anouk,
I think running the MBA on mains power for 80% of the time is probably about
ideal. All Apple products have circuitry that prevents overcharging the
battery, and in my pretty long experience of Apple laptops, about 15 years, the
ones that are used mostly on mains power have batteries that last the longest.
My 11-inch MBA with the same configuration as Anouk, runs mostly on the mains,
as does my previous MBA which is now 2 years old and is used for teaching. No
battery problems there.
The white MacBook I had before that, needed a new battery after 5 years, once
again, working most of the time on the mains.
My husband uses his MacBook Pro a lot of the time on battery and always has to
change the battery after two or three years.
Cheers,
Anne
On 18 Jul 2013, at 03:37, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote:
precisely the configuration I was looking at and dreaming over at the apple
store yesterday. If I get a laptop, it'll be just that model in a 13 inch with
I7, 8GB ram, and 256GB SSD. sweet!
I think with all batteries, you want to "exercise" them regularly. That is,
charge it up fully, and drain it off fully. It can shrink the battery memory if you don't
fully charge and discharge as a rule. Now, of course, that info is probably outdated, but
that's my approach. That's what I do with the iPhone - full charges and discharges
regularly.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anouk Radix" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:50 PM
Subject: how to best run macbook air
Hi everyone,
I just ordered the new gen macbook air 11 inch i7 with 256 gb ssd and 8gb ram.
As you can imagine i am pretty excited.
I am wondering though how best i can run this ultraportable to preserve its
battery as long as possible (its nonreplacable).
I will have access to power about 80 percent of the time. I wodner if it is
best to just run it off power if available (will this do anything to the
battery) or hsould i run it on the battery even if there is power available and
drain it as much as possible an dload it as needed?
Thanks in advance for any info,
Greetings, Anouk
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