Hello Phil and Anouk, I think running the MBA on mains power for 80% of the time is probably about ideal. All Apple products have circuitry that prevents overcharging the battery, and in my pretty long experience of Apple laptops, about 15 years, the ones that are used mostly on mains power have batteries that last the longest.
My 11-inch MBA with the same configuration as Anouk, runs mostly on the mains, as does my previous MBA which is now 2 years old and is used for teaching. No battery problems there. The white MacBook I had before that, needed a new battery after 5 years, once again, working most of the time on the mains. My husband uses his MacBook Pro a lot of the time on battery and always has to change the battery after two or three years. Cheers, Anne On 18 Jul 2013, at 03:37, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > precisely the configuration I was looking at and dreaming over at the apple > store yesterday. If I get a laptop, it'll be just that model in a 13 inch > with I7, 8GB ram, and 256GB SSD. sweet! > I think with all batteries, you want to "exercise" them regularly. That is, > charge it up fully, and drain it off fully. It can shrink the battery memory > if you don't fully charge and discharge as a rule. Now, of course, that info > is probably outdated, but that's my approach. That's what I do with the > iPhone - full charges and discharges regularly. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anouk Radix" <radix.an...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:50 PM > Subject: how to best run macbook air > > > Hi everyone, > I just ordered the new gen macbook air 11 inch i7 with 256 gb ssd and 8gb > ram. As you can imagine i am pretty excited. > I am wondering though how best i can run this ultraportable to preserve its > battery as long as possible (its nonreplacable). > I will have access to power about 80 percent of the time. I wodner if it is > best to just run it off power if available (will this do anything to the > battery) or hsould i run it on the battery even if there is power available > and drain it as much as possible an dload it as needed? > Thanks in advance for any info, > Greetings, Anouk > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
