Yes, I was thinking about it. At least I was thinking about ordering one or two i7s for my new team members, to save them from this horror. But never dared to so so, because they’ll see the i9s of the others and may think they’ve got “second hand” treatment…

Back in April I noticed that my battery performance had been steadily decreasing. In the beginning I was able to get around 7-8 hours of usage (Teams and Discord calls running simultaneously, Messenger opened in the background, multiple windows in Safari and relatively high brightness). However, at one point in time I started getting a measly 4-5 hours. I downloaded coconutBattery to check what’s going on and saw 84% battery health after only 125 charging cycles, while according to Apple 80% should be maintained all the way up to 1000 cycles.

My guess is that after keeping the MacBook plugged into a dock with charger and external monitor for 1-2 weeks straight, the “battery longevity” feature kicked in hard and severely limited the charging capacity. Since then, I have been back to my normal usage and “regained” around 200 mAh of battery. A jump from 84% to 88-89% in the past 3 months.

That being said, I highly recommend coconutBattery if a person wants to keep track of their charges, without constantly having to jump into System Information. It not only retains a record of the max charge capacity during each cycle, but also gives the option to compare the information with a database coming from the same MacBook models (link to images below).



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