Batteries wear due to non-use, or age; whichever comes first.
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Batteries wear due to non-use, or age and cycles; whichever comes first.
Take for example, my secondhand 2015 DG from eBay I got for $300:
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This battery ***LOOKS*** bad but the heavy use on the battery is good because it wore the battery very well; it's near the low 80% mark which looks scary at first but the cycle count essentially means I'm in good shape, outside of my unit not qualifying for the Apple recall :-(.
Batteries are like cars: They have to be used, or they fail or you run into issues you'd never run into on a machine with a "well-loved" battery. Sure I have a little more than 50% of the cycles to play with on this battery and it's been used, but that's par for the course with the 2015 and older; the people who held onto them to avoid the DongleBook Pros absolutely ran them hard because they're tanks. The downside is that many of them have well-loved batteries today, but if you can get that risk matched in the price (and it isn't swollen) you're getting a good unit. At this point, I tell anyone buying one to maintain Intel support to expect this level of wear.
Batteries wear due to non-use, or age; whichever comes first.
Take for example, my secondhand 2015 DG from eBay I got for $300:
[image|97216]
This battery ***LOOKS*** bad but the heavy use on the battery is good because it wore the battery very well; it's near the low 80% mark which looks scary at first but the cycle count essentially means I'm in good shape, outside of my unit not qualifying for the Apple recall :-(.
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Batteries are like cars: They have to be used, or they fail or you run into issues you'd never run into on a machine with a "well-loved" battery. Sure I have a little more than 50% of the cycles to play with on this battery and it's been used, but that's par for the course with the 2015 and older; the people who held onto them to avoid the DongleBook Pros absolutely ran them hard because they're tanks. The downside is that many of them have well-loved batteries today, but if you can get that risk matched in the price (and it isn't swollen) you're getting a good unit.
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Batteries are like cars: They have to be used, or they fail or you run into issues you'd never run into on a machine with a "well-loved" battery. Sure I have a little more than 50% of the cycles to play with on this battery and it's been used, but that's par for the course with the 2015 and older; the people who held onto them to avoid the DongleBook Pros absolutely ran them hard because they're tanks. The downside is that many of them have well-loved batteries today, but if you can get that risk matched in the price (and it isn't swollen) you're getting a good unit. At this point, I tell anyone buying one to maintain Intel support to expect this level of wear.
Batteries wear due to non-use, or age; whichever comes first.
Take for example, my secondhand 2015 DG from eBay I got for $300:
[image|97216]
This battery ***LOOKS*** bad but the heavy use on the battery is good because it wore the battery very well; it's near the low 80% mark which looks scary at first but the cycle count essentially means I'm in good shape, outside of my unit not qualifying for the Apple recall :-(.
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Batteries are like cars: They have to be used, or they fail or you run into issues you'd never run into on a machine with a "well-loved" battery.
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Batteries are like cars: They have to be used, or they fail or you run into issues you'd never run into on a machine with a "well-loved" battery. Sure I have a little more than 50% of the cycles to play with on this battery and it's been used, but that's par for the course with the 2015 and older; the people who held onto them to avoid the DongleBook Pros absolutely ran them hard because they're tanks. The downside is that many of them have well-loved batteries today, but if you can get that risk matched in the price (and it isn't swollen) you're getting a good unit.
Batteries wear due to non-use, or age; whichever comes first.
Take for example, my secondhand 2015 DG from eBay I got for $300:
[image|97216]
This battery ***LOOKS*** bad but the heavy use on the battery is good because it wore the battery very well; it's near the low 80% mark which looks scary at first but the cycle count essentially means I'm in good shape, outside of my unit not qualifying for the Apple recall :-(.
Batteries are like cars: They have to be used, or they fail or you run into issues you'd never run into on a machine with a "well-loved" battery.
