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Coconut Battery Results with new MacBook Pro 16
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It's not so true at all. It depends.
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Your Apple One Year Limited Warranty includes replacement coverage for a defective battery. If you purchased an AppleCare Protection Plan for your Mac notebook, Apple will replace the notebook battery at no charge if it retains less than 80 percent of its original capacity. If you don't have coverage, you can have the battery replaced for a fee.
It's the same with Simplo batteries. Do you use external monitor/s ? I'm trying to figure out Is it related to GPU usage when there is external monitor connected to our macbooks.
It may be related. Under heavy load, the 16 can use over 100 watts for brief periods and I assume that extra wattage comes from the battery. That said, to what extent is 'normal' I cannot say
pretty much yes, I use it with an external monitor but I first plug in the power to tell the system where it should get the charge from and then the monitor using usb-c
either way I get 1h 45 min on battery for a 4000€ laptop it’s a joke
That looks about identical to my MBP 13' 2020
. I'd be happy with that. The guy who wrote www.BatteryUniversity.com (Isidor Buchmann talks about how lithium ion batteries can actually grow in capacity in the first 100 cycles with normal use).
I wouldn't be happy with this. That's a lot of wear and tear for 1 year. Now, my wife's laptop was similar to this - she dropped below 79% after 2.5 years - but she uses her laptop HEAVILY.
Do you have AppleCare+?
My wife's laptop finally says: Service Battery so we're looking to get that done soon (AppleCare+ expires next year early).
Hey, all. I'm down to 7784 mAh (88.6%) after just 4 months of use (57 cycles).
This is the model with the Radeon Pro 5600M 8 GB (HBM) card. 2.4 GHz 8-Core i9, 32 GB memory, 2 TB NVMe SSD.
I drain the battery at least once a week. Most of the time it's connected to a 4K monitor and I'm using the 16" laptop screen as well.
Independently with losing 12% capacity in 4 months (57 cycles), I've been disappointed with the battery life of this Mac. Any have similar experiences?
^ The above graph was generated in Excel from the table data in coconutBattery.
This is the model with the Radeon Pro 5600M 8 GB (HBM) card. 2.4 GHz 8-Core i9, 32 GB memory, 2 TB NVMe SSD.
I drain the battery at least once a week. Most of the time it's connected to a 4K monitor and I'm using the 16" laptop screen as well.
Independently with losing 12% capacity in 4 months (57 cycles), I've been disappointed with the battery life of this Mac. Any have similar experiences?
^ The above graph was generated in Excel from the table data in coconutBattery.
13 months old, pretty light usage, no external monitor.
The worst the battery has been down to is 88%. But now it has been hovring at 96-98% after using Al Dente with a charge limit between 50-75% since 6 months back.👍