hi i was hoping you buy a macbook can someone please tell me about the battery health of this mac? is 86% battery health with 126 cycle count good investment?

  • dewilru@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think so few charge cycles because the MacBook was used constantly with the power supply, but the battery is already old in time.

  • WonderfulShelter@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I just bought one of those same ones with a new battery for 1080$ after tax a month ago. So I would imagine you should be getting a better deal since it’s black friday and cyber monday and there’s all the deals.

    I’d expect you could get it for like 950$ with the deals, but 1100$ is fair.

  • RareSiren292@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I just bought one for $1100 with 7 cycles on the battery. It was apple certified refurbished so it was basically perfect

  • Alex20041509@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The battery may be a problem But the price it’s fair See if the seller can sell it at 900-1000 Due to the battery

    • monti9530@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Even if it were in 50% it would still be doing great numbers compared to other laptops.

      I honestly would not replace it until it only last about 4 hours on a charge. At 86% probably still does 10 hours.

      • milquetoast_wheatley@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Likely true (I own an M1 Pro and Air), I’m more concerned about battery swelling. The chemical changes are accelerating, and the first casualty is the trackpad. Worth $200 to get it swapped out asap.

        • monti9530@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Also true! I would definitely have a repair shop have a look at it to see if the battery needs to be swapped. It could be that the OG owner was just using it constantly for heavy work.

  • cappo3@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My M1 Max also has horrible battery health with very little cycles. It seems to be a common problem on these Pros, based on a quick online research

  • monti9530@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I am near the 100 cycle count on my macbook air and the battery is at 99%. Still seems like a googl deal to me but hot damn did they make it suffer

  • sowa_dania@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’d add two hundred and pick it up at a discount (there are still some cool deals on Amazon)

  • layyo@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Is this dollars? Best Buy is selling the M2 with the same specs for 400 dollars more.

  • easen0v@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    106 charges at 94%. I use AlDente as I stay plugged in most of the time.

        • ptfuzi@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          I found out Sonoma limiting the charging because I was not using the battery lately… So I just un-installed aldente… I was using the free version

          • easen0v@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 months ago

            I still can’t get it to limit my charging. Probably because i use the battery daily, just don’t want to overcharge it for 8hrs straight.

      • muszmusz40@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        You can Google apphousekitchen, and you’ll have it there. It’s a battery charging limiter, so it wouldn’t charge to 100% (which is stressful for the battery) when you don’t need it

    • croppeq96@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      What is this app for? Does being plugged in most of the time helps to increase battery life?