MacBook Neo Gets Same Battery Cycle Rating as MacBook Pro, Air

Apple has updated its artillery rhythm number support document to see the caller MacBook Neo, revealing that the entry-level laptop has a maximum rhythm number of 1,000.


A artillery rhythm is completed erstwhile you've discharged an magnitude adjacent to 100% of the battery's full capacity, but not needfully successful 1 go. For example, if you usage 60% 1 time and 40% the next, it inactive counts arsenic 1 cycle, adjacent though you recharged successful between.

First spotted successful the updated enactment papers by 9to5Mac, the 1,000-cycle bounds puts the MacBook Neo close successful enactment with each MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and modular MacBook that Apple has sold since 2009. Older models from the pre-unibody epoch had limits arsenic debased arsenic 300 cycles.

In real-world terms, adjacent idiosyncratic who burns done a afloat rhythm each time would instrumentality astir 3 years to deed the 1,000 number cap. More emblematic usage patterns could good agelong that beyond 5 years.

Apple says its lithium-ion batteries are designed to clasp up to 80% of their archetypal capableness astatine the maximum rhythm count. After that, the artillery is considered "consumed" and a replacement is recommended, but that doesn't mean it volition simply halt working.

Launching contiguous with a $599 starting price, the all-new MacBook Neo ships with a 36.5-watt-hour lithium-ion battery, which Apple rates for up to 16 hours of video playback and up to 11 hours of wireless web browsing.

• Check Your Mac's Battery Cycle Count

Every caller Mac bought from Apple comes with a one-year warranty that includes work sum for a defective battery. If your Mac is retired of warranty and the artillery hasn't aged well, Apple offers artillery work for a charge. In this case, a MacBook Neo artillery work costs $149.
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