It's not 2014 anymore and Apple no longer recommends it.
Just use your Mac, run it from the battery when you need to, charge it when you can.
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It's not 2014 anymore and Apple no longer recommends it.
Just use your Mac, run it from the battery when you need to, charge it when you can.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201585
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
A couple years ago Apple removed all that business about exercising (cycling) batteries and replaced it with these pages on batteries. There is some new information on there explaining about battery cycles I don't think was on there before. Maybe they figured out those monthly battery discharges were just adding unnecessary charging cycles... who knows?
You are correct, Apple does not say not to discharge, but they no longer are telling you to do so either.
I simply said I was unnecessary.
You started taking about how Apple used to recommend it in 2014, and I pointed out that Apple no longer recommends it.
@T5BRICK you also observed that it's no longer 2014.
Thanks. My own experience with a replacement battery: after refraining from a discharge for too long, the hardware temporarily lost the ability to begin hibernation in good time. Then I had to repeatedly allow discharges, with ungraceful results (hibernation failures), until good timing was re-learnt. I knew, before those problems, that I was ignoring Apple's recommendation; I didn't mind observing the results (AppleSeed and all that).
Nowadays I don't follow a strict monthly routine, I simply allow the occasional discharge and hibernations never fail.
YMMV; I sometimes push things so hard that the Mac takes a few minutes before the hibernatefile can be written.
Thanks. My own experience with a replacement battery: after refraining from a discharge for too long, the hardware temporarily lost the ability to begin hibernation in good time. Then I had to repeatedly allow discharges, with ungraceful results (hibernation failures), until good timing was re-learnt. I knew, before those problems, that I was ignoring Apple's recommendation; I didn't mind observing the results (AppleSeed and all that).
Nowadays I don't follow a strict monthly routine, I simply allow the occasional discharge and hibernations never fail.
YMMV; I sometimes push things so hard that the Mac takes a few minutes before the hibernatefile can be written.
I own 3 machines, an iMac, Mac Pro and
2015 13" rMBP 8/256... Is it normal to loose 10% battery over a night?
Depends what sort of power saving and sleep modes you have set in preferences but I usually lose 2-3% overnight.