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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Problems using Macbook Pro without Battery
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<blockquote data-quote="cptkrf" data-source="post: 1343187" data-attributes="member: 134861"><p>What you have recommended is close to what Apples suggests you do. </p><p></p><p>Of course a battery can die at 50 cycles. A brand new hard drive can die in the first ten minutes of use. With a non-defective or degraded battery today you should get a nominal 1000 cycles, treated properly. So if your laptop gets a hard use of two complete cycles a day, it will probably have the capacity degraded below practical usage in just over a year. Plugged in all the time the machine is on, and properly cycled at appropriate intervals, it will probably outlast the machine.</p><p></p><p>Just be glad we have moved past the early NiCad technology. Those battery packs had to be babied, gently talked to and put to bed at night by a nanny. Or you might be replacing it in a month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cptkrf, post: 1343187, member: 134861"] What you have recommended is close to what Apples suggests you do. Of course a battery can die at 50 cycles. A brand new hard drive can die in the first ten minutes of use. With a non-defective or degraded battery today you should get a nominal 1000 cycles, treated properly. So if your laptop gets a hard use of two complete cycles a day, it will probably have the capacity degraded below practical usage in just over a year. Plugged in all the time the machine is on, and properly cycled at appropriate intervals, it will probably outlast the machine. Just be glad we have moved past the early NiCad technology. Those battery packs had to be babied, gently talked to and put to bed at night by a nanny. Or you might be replacing it in a month. [/QUOTE]
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