02-10-2008, 12:19 PM

im no computer whizz but i know vaguely about the whole battery cycle concept. my question is if you take your macbook off charge only for a couple of minutes and it goes down to something like 85% and then you completely recharge it again does it go through a full cycle, hence reducing the battery lifespan, or will the small charge amount have a much smaller effect on the battery lifespan as opposed to if you let the battery largely discharge to something like 30%

all help will be greatly appreciated

02-10-2008, 01:15 PM

http://www.apple.com/batteries/

To put it simply, a "cycle" is a complete charge-discharge cycle. Meaning a 100% discharge-recharge, or a 50% discharge-recharge-50%discharge-recharge, or....