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M1 Macbook Air takes more than 3 hours to charge! :(
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No, that's not it, optimized charging - according to the description, at least - refers to charging after 80% capacity is reached.
I suspect this has got more to do with the ridiculously slow 30W charger that Apple supplies with the Macbook Air - compared to the 60W charger for Macbook Pro 13''
Have you tried it? I have. It made a difference sub 80%. Unless you are hammering the machine while charging it should charge a bit faster than that.
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Your battery life will be severely reduced if you regularly run it down to 5%. The industry benchmarks suggest recharge at min 20%.
I could, but it's a $100 extra on top of the laptop price in my country. Quite a shameful policy by Apple to provide such crappy chargers for premium laptops.
True because my last battery had more than 3000 cycles and it had 78% capacity, so its a difference if you dont let your battery down to 5-10%
Same charger as previous MB Airs. About size battery also. Air is a budget system.
USB-C chargers are universal and the systems negotiate the charge power. So if you have a higher power USB-C charger then it should work. Back when we could travel I usually carried one USB-C 60W charger and used it for my 16" MBP, Samsung S10, iPad Pro.
Apple says design life on a MBP battery is 1000 (or less) cycles. 3000 is really spectacular.
Determine battery cycle count for Mac laptops - Apple Support
Learn how to determine the number of cycles your Mac laptop's battery has.
Actually, you won't see a difference as the higher-wattage changers never go above 40W.
Also, 3 hours is very extreme with the 30W charger, thus you must be heavily using the machine while charging. I'm usually around 2h from around 10 to 15%.
I understand that. That's why I don't follow the specs.Apple says design like on a MBP is 1000 or less cycles. 3000 is really spectacular.
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I'm a (bio)chemist FWIW and those electrons need to move.
I would have used it more but the second SSD in the machine failed and it wasn't worth another replacement.
M1MBA to the rescue. I think it has 10 cycles on the battery already as well.
I used my machines a lot.
Update:
Well, almost an hour has passed since my post, and I'm at around 60%, which gives the Macbook Air 40% per hour (or 2h 30m) charging speed. I guess it is functioning normally, even though I would prefer it to charge faster. Looks like the battery charging speed indicator is quite a bit off the charts.
Well, almost an hour has passed since my post, and I'm at around 60%, which gives the Macbook Air 40% per hour (or 2h 30m) charging speed. I guess it is functioning normally, even though I would prefer it to charge faster. Looks like the battery charging speed indicator is quite a bit off the charts.
Do the calculation with 30W and the mAh battery capacity.
I see 12.5% battery charge per 15min segment. Then it slows after 80% to about half that speed.
So what?
Plan ahead a bit better or pickup a higher wattage power adapter.
Easy peasy. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MS9CTB7/
Plan ahead a bit better or pickup a higher wattage power adapter.
Easy peasy. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MS9CTB7/
Really? Folks have mentioned the bottom mentioning 20V 3A.
I'll take your word for it -- in which case the OP's complaint is effectively moot.
Edit - the cited charger is still a really handy desktop unit I've been using a while now.
A 96w charger gains you 17mins only as the MBA does not charge more then 41w. Check a test here: notebookcheck.net
That's well done considering Apple limits cycles to 1000 even in the M1.
AND you managed to perform a full cycle recharge every day for over 8 years!
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Yeah. I bought the early-2013 rMBP MD101 that was an out going model and used the **** out it.
It was actually 3100 or so cycles.
I'll see if I can find it in coconut battery.