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I use my MacBooks all day every day. Never had this happen. I wonder what unique workflow conditions he has that causes this.

bzzzt 2y ago
Or maybe it's just a relatively bad battery. It's not broken, it's just not keeping enough charge to pass Apple's threshold for replacement within warranty.
- millzlane 2y ago
  The writer said it's two years old. You either get 2 years or 800-1000 charge cycles before that battery will hover around 80% degraded. That is in line with what I have seen for the past few years. The battery is fine. They just have had heavy all day usage apparently. They have used up most of its usable life. The battery isn't dead only heavily degraded after two years.
  - lapcat 2y ago
    Cycle count is 806.
    - input_sh 2y ago
      For what it's worth, Apple says "The battery is considered consumed once it reaches the limit." That limit has been 1000 for all models since about 2010.
    - bzzzt 2y ago
      That's a lot for 2 years of use. I'm using less than 100 cycles per year, but my MacBook is on a powered USB-C hub a lot of the time (so it's charging or holding but not using battery power).
- pantalaimon 2y ago
  The article says it's covered by AppleCare+, but the author can't deal with the multi-week downtime that sending the machine in would cause.
  - colomon 2y ago
    AppleCare+ is usually 48-hours downtime in my experience, and that's with the need to ship the laptop to and from the repair center.
cjk2 2y ago
Yeah my 2021 M1 Pro is showing 89% battery. My spare 2021 M1 Pro is showing 99% battery. (Also I have a spare iMac and a spare Mac Mini and an iPad I can work on) YMMV but redundancy is good.
- icebergonfire 2y ago
  FWIW my M1 Air 2020 is at 93% health. We could speculate about the potential root cause of this different (I always use optimized charging and the author appears to have it disabled on their screenshots)... but it's quite more likely that it's simply bad luck of the battery draw.
  - Nevolihs 2y ago
    I'm at 84% on this M1 MBP that I've been using for 2 years, I'm not too far off from his numbers.
lapcat 2y ago
You never had to replace the battery? All batteries lose capacity over time. That's hardly unique. In fact battery replacement is the most common repair.
- infecto 2y ago
  Have I had to replace batteries, yes. Have I had to do it at the same frequency no. Not trying to be critical of you, just curious why the batteries get cycled so much. I have used machines heavily over two year periods but perhaps the difference between they were generally plugged in so I was not cycling the battery as quickly.
  - lapcat 2y ago
    > I have used machines heavily over two year periods but perhaps the difference between they were generally plugged in so I was not cycling the battery as quickly. Yes, that would be the difference. I generally only plug in to charge and don't actually work at a desk a lot.
  - throwaway48476 2y ago
    Most People use their laptops as laptops. 1000 charge cycles at 1.5 cycles a day is only 2 years.
    - infecto 2y ago
      Not in my experience with practically every software gig I have had in the past decade.

bzzzt 2y ago

Or maybe it's just a relatively bad battery. It's not broken, it's just not keeping enough charge to pass Apple's threshold for replacement within warranty.

millzlane 2y ago
The writer said it's two years old. You either get 2 years or 800-1000 charge cycles before that battery will hover around 80% degraded. That is in line with what I have seen for the past few years. The battery is fine. They just have had heavy all day usage apparently. They have used up most of its usable life. The battery isn't dead only heavily degraded after two years.
- lapcat 2y ago
  Cycle count is 806.
  - input_sh 2y ago
    For what it's worth, Apple says "The battery is considered consumed once it reaches the limit." That limit has been 1000 for all models since about 2010.
  - bzzzt 2y ago
    That's a lot for 2 years of use. I'm using less than 100 cycles per year, but my MacBook is on a powered USB-C hub a lot of the time (so it's charging or holding but not using battery power).
pantalaimon 2y ago
The article says it's covered by AppleCare+, but the author can't deal with the multi-week downtime that sending the machine in would cause.
- colomon 2y ago
  AppleCare+ is usually 48-hours downtime in my experience, and that's with the need to ship the laptop to and from the repair center.

cjk2 2y ago

Yeah my 2021 M1 Pro is showing 89% battery. My spare 2021 M1 Pro is showing 99% battery. (Also I have a spare iMac and a spare Mac Mini and an iPad I can work on) YMMV but redundancy is good.

icebergonfire 2y ago
FWIW my M1 Air 2020 is at 93% health. We could speculate about the potential root cause of this different (I always use optimized charging and the author appears to have it disabled on their screenshots)... but it's quite more likely that it's simply bad luck of the battery draw.
- Nevolihs 2y ago
  I'm at 84% on this M1 MBP that I've been using for 2 years, I'm not too far off from his numbers.

lapcat 2y ago

You never had to replace the battery? All batteries lose capacity over time. That's hardly unique. In fact battery replacement is the most common repair.

infecto 2y ago
Have I had to replace batteries, yes. Have I had to do it at the same frequency no. Not trying to be critical of you, just curious why the batteries get cycled so much. I have used machines heavily over two year periods but perhaps the difference between they were generally plugged in so I was not cycling the battery as quickly.
- lapcat 2y ago
  > I have used machines heavily over two year periods but perhaps the difference between they were generally plugged in so I was not cycling the battery as quickly. Yes, that would be the difference. I generally only plug in to charge and don't actually work at a desk a lot.
- throwaway48476 2y ago
  Most People use their laptops as laptops. 1000 charge cycles at 1.5 cycles a day is only 2 years.
  - infecto 2y ago
    Not in my experience with practically every software gig I have had in the past decade.