How to keep your Macbook battery in the best condition possible?

Gilbert89 · 4 Jul 2012 at 11:43

The way I treat my MacBooks battery is giving it a full charge and then using whilst using the battery most times I let the laptop sleep before I set it charging but on the odd occasion I charge it when usually below 20% .. Had it since last June and I believe the battery is at 99% fully charged.

So is this the way forward?

How do you all treat it?

Cosmic182 · 4 Jul 2012 at 11:46

Mines expanded :'(

Hamish · 4 Jul 2012 at 11:55

Gilbert89 said:
The way I treat my MacBooks battery is giving it a full charge and then using whilst using the battery most times I let the laptop sleep before I set it charging but on the odd occasion I charge it when usually below 20% .. Had it since last June and I believe the battery is at 99% fully charged.

So is this the way forward?

How do you all treat it?

Modern batteries don't have memory like the old NiCd batteries did. No need to keep them charged/discharge or fully run them down each time. Just use them however you wish and make sure to charge them and discharge them fully to keep the charge indicator accurate.
Modern LiPo batteries are supposed to have lifetimes of as long as a laptop, which is why companies like apple are soldering theirs in.

uniQ · 4 Jul 2012 at 11:56

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

Dr Coppelius · 5 Jul 2012 at 12:54

There's a free app on the App Store called Battery Health that allows you to monitor, well, what it says.

Peerzy · 5 Jul 2012 at 12:56

I'm a laptop user who generally just buys a few power plugs which means 95% of the time I'd use a laptop it'll be plugged in somewhere.

Would this be bad for the battery on a new rMBP?

It would effectively always be run off the battery, I obviously don't want to shag the battery as it'll effect resell and I'm happy to run it down and charge overnight then run it down charge etc....

I always just plug in as then I never have to consider battery life.

uniQ · 5 Jul 2012 at 16:33

If you couldn't get the answer from the above link try this thread:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=9875442&postcount=23

StevenG · 8 Jul 2012 at 10:47

uniQ said:
If you couldn't get the answer from the above link try this thread:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=9875442&postcount=23

Makes for good reading that does, always wondered what was best for the battery.

Thanks for posting.

StevenG

Evoss · 8 Jul 2012 at 15:37

Battery memory used with previous older batters, only need to fully deplete it about once a month. Also to save the hassle if it were that way, just buy a new battery after 2 years or so.