According to coconutBattery, I've had 90 charge cycles in the ~9 months I've had the laptop, and have lost 3% of the design capacity of the battery. I usually run my M1 MBA on battery until it drops to 20-40%, then I'll plug it in just long enough to charge it to 70-90%. Just wondering what the collective wisdom of disconnecting power regularly is. I have read Apple's docs about batteries. The newer one also loses a lot of charge because of indexing activities. On the older model, the battery is definitely starting to fade but that also seems to because of all the indexing that Spotlight does. I wonder if this good or bad? I'm not a big fan (figuratively) of having dense electronics run hot all the time. To give them a break and to let them cool down, I unplug the power overnight or when I will away for more than a few hours. The newer one frequently pauses charging at about 80% but sometimes goes to 100% which is when it gets the warmest. The newer one does not get quite as warm. The older one runs rather warm most of the time whether the CPU is busy or not. I mostly do programming which can be a bit CPU intensive at intervals. They both are hooked up to monitors most of the time meaning they are also hooked up to a power brick. I have two MacBook Pros one is a 2015 model (I think - it is in the other room) and the other is a 2018 model.
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