I purchase these things to use them and don't have resale value in mind. I will use it until it doesn't work for me anymore (5-10 years) and likely will have the battery replaced once in between.
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Why are people using their MacBook Airs on battery?
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To each their own. I never think any gadgets that I've bought as investments, therefore I do not care about the resale value. Gadget resale value always drop, unless you buy the first gen of any devices and never unbox it, only to auction it decades later.
I bought my MacBook Air for high portability and amazing battery life as I often work outside without access to power.
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TL;DR: If you value your high resale value, I understand your purpose fully. But for me, personally I buy my gadget to properly use it & push it as it's intended to, and daily until it wear down - resale value be damned.
I bought my MacBook Air for high portability and amazing battery life as I often work outside without access to power.
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TL;DR: If you value your high resale value, I understand your purpose fully. But for me, personally I buy my gadget to properly use it & push it as it's intended to, and daily until it wear down - resale value be damned.
Apple charges 129usd for battery replacement, why are you paying 129 (anker external) in order to make your slim laptop a complex portable solution?
Just wait until you need to replace it and spent the money when it is necesary, in the mainwhile, hace all the fun with the product as it was designed for!!
This is the biggest no sense ever.
Just wait until you need to replace it and spent the money when it is necesary, in the mainwhile, hace all the fun with the product as it was designed for!!
This is the biggest no sense ever.
Now this is inspiring some ideas. Why not make a laptop whose internal battery is good for maybe 5-10 min — just long enough to prevent shutdown while you locate and run an extension cord and power cord if you need them? And then the user can choose to carry a power bank as large or small as they actually need (or none if they’re just taking the laptop from one place with a cord to another). And the laptop itself would be incredibly light!
Okay I would say carrying an external hard drive is a must just to minimize the writes on the internal drive since it's not replaceable. The same goes for USB hubs as 2 ports isn't going to cut it for on the go. I have a friend who carries a mouse pad and mini lights with a stand in her laptop bag so it's not that uncommon.
Why use the anything at all, you’re just putting more wear on it.
I bought the Anker Prime power bank to put the wear and tear on when out of the house. I bought it solely to use with the MacBook. Not using it to charge anything else to keep the cycle count down on the Anker battery (I have other power banks for the other devices). So often will carry multiple powerbanks in the bag.
Not sure what that term means, but all I did was replace "MacBook" references with "car" references. Not genius work, I'll admit, but about the appropriate level of effort for the quality of the original post.
Sadly I don't think it is intentional.
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Oh, hold on. You mean the OP of the copypasta, not the original poster of the original post?
I give up. This thread is surreal anyway.
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A copypasta is a meme format where you take an existing paragraph and switch out the references to something else while retaining the original meaning or message.
You’re better off using the internal battery, setting the 80% charging limit, and using it plugged in when you are at a desk but using the internal when you are on the go, and get a battery replacement after 3 years or so
I think you’re overlooking something — that internal laptop battery will still eventually fail even if never used.
That’s why I don’t use laptops at all.
In fact, I have my Mac Pro on wheels connected to an XDR display powered through a gas-fueled generator. This way I have maximum performance wherever I (and my 200kg rig) go and I *never* have to worry about those pesky batteries ever again.
Stop relying on obsolete technology that only depreciates infinitesimally with use, people. The GasBook Pro Revolution is nigh!
I’m still at 100% too with my M1 MacBook Pro and it’s plugged in 99% of the time.
This is ridiculous, I have mBA 2011 and MbP 2014 which still have 15 years of life left. I am a heavy user, unless your SSD isn’t reliable they should outlast life of a Mac by a decade. If you aren’t lucky, the drive is gonna fail what ever you do or don’t. I have external drive because it’s cheaper to expand the capacity than buying a laptop with higher SSD cap.
Fair enough but why not cut back on the wear and tear on the internal drive since we can by using an external one? I'd rather keep the writes on the internal drive to a bare minimum. Each time you write to it, you shorten its lifespan. I'd hate to have to buy a new MacBook just because the internal drive reached its lifespan and conked out. That's a very expensive lesson.
I don't even store anything on my desktop or in the folders because of this. If we were able to use an external drive as the swap drive I would do this too.
Why? I don’t work for the laptop, it works for me. I have backups anyways, and my thunderbolt drives if I need more space.
Why don't people put their macs in hard cases to keep it damage free to preserve resale value?
Why don't people buy an external keyboard so they don't make the macs keyboard shiny, again to preserve resale value?
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That Anker prime 27650 battery is like $180, no? The difference between a used Air with few cycles and lots of cycles is probably lower than that. So you spend money on a battery pack, inconvenience yourself by having to lug it around and then in the end it probably won't even make sense financially. Used M1 Airs are what, like $400-500, you're not gonna get that $180 back.
This has to be a troll post.
I've had a M1 Macbook Air I've had since 2021, been using daily from the battery and health is at 84%. Definitely noticeable but it still makes it through the day.
I've had my M1 Macbook for 3 years, used it daily mostly not on the battery, and my cycle count is only 470. Unless you're doing intense work it's hard to drain the battery every day.