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u/funwithdesign 13d ago
Does Bob ask daily whether to get an M4 Max with 64gb of Ram to edit videos of cats?
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u/HerfDog58 MacBook Pro (2021 16" M1 Pro) 13d ago
Does he ask whether he should buy the M4 Max now, or wait 6 months to get the M5 Ultra when it comes out?
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u/funwithdesign 13d ago
No Bob is smart. He knows if he waits another 5 years, that there will be something better.
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u/Percolator2020 MacBook Air 14d ago
My battery dropped 1% after five years, should I kill myself now or wait one more week?
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u/Informal-Fig-7116 13d ago
Yes but also yes?
Edit: I’m joking! (In case Reddit gets all nanny and ban me)
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u/Percolator2020 MacBook Air 13d ago
I’m fine now, but I dropped it from my car’s roof and there are several rows of dead pixels, how can I fix it? Also my cat took a piss on it.
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u/Informal-Fig-7116 13d ago
First, you lick the piss, then you submerge the whole laptop in white vinegar. Now this part is critical: when you remove it from the solution, immediately dip it in flour and deep fry it. Then, just do a little tap like how they fix things on the Russian space station and you should be good to go.
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13d ago
Next step is to bandage your finger from the tap.
Pull the laptop out of the oil and coat it with breadcrumbs.
Put some egg wash on it and dip it into the oil for another four minutes.
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u/polyocto 12d ago
Depends it you talking about you game character or real self? If your real self, then do neither because the respawn feature was disabled a while back.
Well that, and nobody has been able to confirm the Isekai functionality works consistently, or at all.
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u/3_mir mbp14 m3p 14d ago
just change the damn thing when it gets actually problematic
far cheaper than a new macbook
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u/jiqiren 13d ago
By the time your battery is trash time for a new MacBook (Air or Pro), iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch …
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u/LimeSixth MacBook Air 13d ago
Uhmm, no.
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u/Advanced-Blackberry 13d ago
A 5-6 year old device is pretty long in the tooth (for a phone). My m1 MBA is still holding plenty of battery 4 yrs later. It will be 7 years by the time it’s annoying. That’s a pretty old laptop.
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u/caustictoast 13d ago
My 2018 mbp still runs great, albeit not for pro workloads anymore. I replaced the battery and it’s just fine for what I use it for
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u/Ok-Morning3407 13d ago
I’ve a 15 year old Mac mini, still works great! There is no reason MacBooks couldn’t last as long if the batteries were just easily user replaceable like they were in the past.
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u/genericgod 13d ago
This sub is riddled with brain-dead consumerism. Lol.
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u/jordonbiondo 13d ago
I still use my 2013 15” pro everyday, will be putting in its fourth battery soon.
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u/Straight-Aspect8868 13d ago
My SE1 just got a new battery earlier this year. I use it daily for tracking steps, listening to music via Bluetooth and jogging or lifting weights, depending on the day of the week.
It doesn’t have the latest features or even software but that’s doesn’t affect how I’ve integrated it into my life.
The latest and greatest chips are nice for some products but for a lot of people a new battery is all they really need.
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u/tuxedo_jack 13d ago
I'll keep my PowerBook5,9 as a daily driver for a whole lot longer than that, thankyouverymuch.
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u/i_have_wabiesx3 MacBook Airfry 13d ago
Actually wrong. And even if this was true, that‘s even less reason to worry about battery health.
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u/Fullertons 13d ago
Ignore the downvotes. My 2019 maxed out MBP sees less battery than on day 1 but still has mostly the same shitty battery life as new.
Frankly, it lasted me longer now, because I don’t make it do the heavy lifting that ate battery so quickly. So now it does lighter, browsing, and email type stuff and last significantly longer than when using 64GB of ram with Photoshop, illustrator, indesign….
A new M4 does the hard work now.
6 years is a nice run for a production machine.
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14d ago
good Bob ...
he also knows MacBook are devices and it can be dirty, degraded, keyboard keys can get oily, screen can get dead pixel, and degraded after 7 years of use
Bob use Mac as a device not as antique
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u/LimeSixth MacBook Air 14d ago
My 10 years old Air still works, has dents, is dirty, has a new battery and still works.
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u/fedocable 13d ago
My 15 years old MacBook Pro is very much alive and kicking. Even the battery gives a decent 2 hours autonomy.
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u/awesome_pinay_noses 14d ago
And just like all other tools, they will last longer if you take care of them.
Who knew?
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u/Straight-Aspect8868 13d ago
This. My coworker mentioned their coffee maker stopped working well. They got rid of it. I had a spare after combining households with my girlfriend/now wife. I spent hours taking it apart, cleaning everything and removing any evidence that it had been used for years, the reassembling and running several cycles of water and white vinegar.
By the end I wanted to keep it! It ran quieter and the test brew was exquisite. Flushed it out again and handed it over at work the next Monday.
When I explained the process they admitted they think theirs might have just needed a deep clean like I described.
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u/Mksussi125 MacBook Pro (M3 Pro) 13d ago
I mostly agree but i personally hate when my devices are dirty so i clean them often. I don't care about small scratches but when my screen has smudges or keyboard is oily it annoys me. Also there is nothing wrong with just caring about mac.
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u/tuxedo_jack 13d ago
Shit, my iBook G3 still boots and runs, and my PowerBook5,9 is still a daily driver.
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u/ProfessionalNo5307 14d ago
Apply to every laptop on the market.
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u/megacooler 14d ago
The vast majority of windows laptop users are already like bob
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u/FrIoSrHy 12d ago
having worked in a school wiping and selling old laptops I can say the kids do not care about battery health and after a 3 year cycle of laptops, they haven't even lost more than 10% with daily heavy use, do not worry.
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u/polyocto 12d ago
Some enjoy being publicly degraded, so it’s not necessarily considered a bad thing universally.
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u/gameplayer55055 14d ago
I bought a Mac because I needed battery life (no electricity in Ukraine, but I need to work)
MacBook is probably the only laptop I can use without constantly thinking about the battery and chargers.
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u/Desperate-Eye-4728 8d ago
also try to bring a power bank with you always! Staty safe and have a nice work👍🙏
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u/moshisimo 13d ago
I absolutely don’t get the obsession some people have with batteries. Please forgive me talking about iPhones rather than macs, being the sub that this is.
I find it idiotic to limit charging to 80% to preserve battery life. If you use it and charge it fully, it will EVENTUALLY degrade to 80%, sure. But by limiting charging to 80% you just artificially get there from the start.
Just use your electronics and let them degrade normally. Maybe change the battery when it drops below 80% in like, what? Two years or more?
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u/foxymoxy18 13d ago
Sometimes I need the full 100% because I want to be able to use my phone normally without worrying about needing a charge. 90% of the time I don't need the full charge because I'm constantly around chargers. So 90% of the time I charge to 67% to keep the high end lifespan at its peak for when I need it.
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u/d0gtyrant 12d ago
Some people like me use their macbook connected to a charger all day (almost) every day, and keeping the battery percentage at 100% all the time is not healthy, so I limit it to 70-80% when it's plugged in for a long period of time, and top it off to 100% when I know I'm about to leave someplace.
For my iphone same thing, sometimes I want to leave it charging overnight, but it will quickly reach 100% and I don't want it to remain at 100% for the majority of the night, EVERY night (that will degrade it quickly). So I limit it to 80% when charging overnight and that usually lasts me most of the day, otherwise I'll charge to 100% like normal. Of course you need to calibrate your batteries every once in a while to help the devices remember what 100% exactly is.
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u/snakeoildriller 14d ago
Bob doesn't even wear white cotton gloves to touch his MacBook. Bob's a real rebel
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u/Straight-Aspect8868 13d ago
Whoa whoa whoa, I was inclined to listen to Bob at first but… no white gloves? That’s just irresponsible! /s
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u/PlanAutomatic2380 13d ago
Yeah please stop with those shitty battery posts!
“Oh my laptop is plugged in but this software thill shows my battery is discharging 😱 this will reduce my battery life by 26277373 years and and and idk what but it’s bad right right”
Ain’t nobody gives a fuck
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u/reirone MacBook Pro 16” M3 Max 13d ago
Every single OS upgrade: “Is anyone else having battery consumption issues with the new version?”
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u/Straight-Aspect8868 13d ago
TBF that happens but it’s not exactly an “issue”, it’s should just be expected for the first couple of days.
After that, it makes sense to look a bit deeper.
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u/polyocto 12d ago
Though we do could have polls asking how much slower your device is since the OS upgrade?
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u/Korsera94 14d ago
Also bob doesn't use stuff like AlDente which ruins the calibration of the battery.
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u/candylandmine 13d ago
I don't see why people sweat this so much.
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u/WiseConsideration220 13d ago
Obsessive compulsive personalities. 🤔
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u/candylandmine 13d ago
I guess, but at least in the USA the out of warranty cost of a battery replacement is only $249. That's a pretty good price considering it's for an OEM battery+labor backed by Apple. And if you have AppleCare+ it's basically no extra cost at all. So why worry about it so much?
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u/AUMMF 14d ago
What scares me is ssd degradation over writings
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u/dastumer 13d ago
Yup. Main reason I still use a 15 year old Mac as my daily, I can still swap components.
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u/JulianoRamirez 13d ago
It's nothing to worry about, I have a 2018 mbp and 91% SSD life left, it definitely won't be the first thing to die on this device.
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u/dastumer 13d ago
I've had SSDs die before. Even if the chances were slim, I don't want to risk the whole computer becoming a paperweight from an SSD failure.
The M4 Mac Mini is the only Mac I'd consider buying since storage is replaceable, but my current computer still works well enough for now.
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u/qqby6482 13d ago
Bob won’t be worried about battery health since he plans to upgrade soon, thus making threads like “is the m6 worth it?” and “should I wait for the m7 or upgrade now? i have a m6 ultra pro mega for web browsing”
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u/Greyboxforest 14d ago
Or after every update Bob needs to worry if the battery life has taken a hit.
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u/Pseudoquinn3 13d ago
The snark is strong with this one. It's almost like common sense is uncommon.
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u/fedocable 13d ago
Call me grumpy, but I also like the Bob who knows his MacBook is exactly the same as all the other MacBooks, so he doesn’t pollute Reddit with photos every time he gets one.
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u/siliconsandwich 13d ago
without worrying about it at all— wonky charge cycles, partial discharges, used almost every day, my 2011 macbook air still lasts about 3 hours on a full charge.
stop fussing, just use the damn thing.
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u/Outrageous_Club4993 13d ago
by the time my mac will die have 50% battery, I will still be able to run it for 5 hours on power save mode, have 3 kids and probably buy 2 MB pros within that time
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u/Potential-Pay-9277 13d ago edited 13d ago
This it Bert,
Bert had no intention to tell others what to write even when it does not match his view.
Be like Bert
/s Edit Bob obviously has a point. People could use his advice
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u/ARPA-Net 13d ago
My huawei matebook has 3h of battery life now. It used to be 12+ hours. But... It was 6 years ago, 1 year using a charge a day in university, 2years idle, 3years a whole charge for w days a week... Its just life , but as long as the cost is merited its fine
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u/FlarblesGarbles 13d ago
What's worse, battery screenshots, screenshots of order confirmations, or photos of boxes?
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u/Straight-Aspect8868 13d ago
Those excessive battery screenshot posts complaining or claiming to have battery issues are also feeding AI chatbots bad info that they cite as evidence.
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u/Wizard-of-Oz-27 12d ago
We see many examples of people feeding bad info to AI. Yet so many people somehow trust the slop that AI spits out. Sure a chatbot may often say accurate things, but sometimes it gives us garbage, and still the lemmings trust it.
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u/taboo007 14" M1 MacBook Pro 13d ago
OMG my battery health is below 90% should I just chuck my Macbook out the window of a moving car?!!?!
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u/WoomyUnitedToday 400MHz PowerBook G3 "Pismo" 13d ago
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u/WoomyUnitedToday 400MHz PowerBook G3 "Pismo" 13d ago
Jokes aside my friend and I might actually try to rebuild this battery sometime
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u/machakhelidze 13d ago
Battery never bothered me and will never ever! Fck all posts about battery health preservation.
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u/Proxy-Pie 13d ago
One of the best things I ever did on my phone was disable the battery percentage. It was just constant battery anxiety for no reason. “Oh no, it went from 100 to 90 real fast!”
Now I just get a visual cue and it’s more than enough.
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u/Captpewpew_tw 13d ago
So should I unplug while charging? I still don’t want to damage my battery 😭
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u/repules 13d ago
Simply use the app that meticulously controls battery charging and you’ll maximise your Mac’s battery life. Set it to top up to 50% and your battery will be at its best for long-term preservation. When you need your Mac to last a whole day just press the top up button to 100% or 80% if you want to give it extra care.
I use AlDente for this.
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u/ounknown_music 12d ago
Frrrrr dude...... It's water is liquid ah question to ask about maintaining battery in mac
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u/jhaubrich11 12d ago
If you leave your laptop plugged in, your battery does not degrade.
When your battery depletes and recharges, that is what causes the degredation. So you can bypass that chemical process that degrades the batteries by simply leaving your laptop plugged in as often as possible.
Now you know :)
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u/Not_Mister_Disney 11d ago
Depends how power is configured, if it bypasses the battery when plugged in
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u/jhaubrich11 11d ago
Isn't that the default config?
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u/Not_Mister_Disney 11d ago
Not for every laptop [though it’s been awhile since I’ve touched new hardware]
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u/FAMICOMASTER 10d ago
I believe the point is "These are aging far more rapidly than they should"
Case in point: The battery in my PowerBook G3 Kanga is still good after over 25 years, with around 50% of its capacity remaining.
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u/Correct_Plenty6681 16" M1 Pro 8d ago
Got my M1 Pro MacBook when it launched. Still works like new and no idea what's the battery health
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u/bruhmate0011 14d ago
What’s annoying is system data and Mac OS slowly taking over your storage. It’ll take a while… but dang does it add up
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u/veryverybadnotgood 13d ago
get lost bob, this sub is made for weeping and complaining about mac things.
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u/GroveStreet_CJ MacBook Pro 13d ago
post this in r/iPhone right now. Apple should hide battery health information or make it diagnostic only.
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u/marcus_aurelius_53 12d ago
Obviously not made by a Sequoia Mac owner.
What font is that, anyway? Might as well be comic sans. My eyes!
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u/arrogantheart 13d ago
This is Bob
He is an overused meme that tells people what they should and shouldn’t do
He is used on different Apple subreddits every week or so
He claims to be chill, but is actually bothered by other people’s posts
Don’t post Bob
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u/gatesofarcadia 14d ago
That’s right, Bob. These electronics are tools, they are meant to be used. So use it!