![]() ![]() In contrast to my usage, however, a friend of mine with a 2014 MBA almost always leaves it plugged into the mains. If that's accurate, I estimate that once the laptop turns 5 years old, it will "only" have about 14 hours of battery life on a charge, so I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and not worry too much about needing to maximize the battery's health. According to coconutBattery, I've had 90 charge cycles in the ~9 months I've had the laptop, and have lost 3% of the design capacity of the battery. I usually run my M1 MBA on battery until it drops to 20-40%, then I'll plug it in just long enough to charge it to 70-90%. Just wondering what the collective wisdom of disconnecting power regularly is. I have read Apple's docs about batteries. The newer one also loses a lot of charge because of indexing activities. ![]() On the older model, the battery is definitely starting to fade but that also seems to because of all the indexing that Spotlight does. I wonder if this good or bad? I'm not a big fan (figuratively) of having dense electronics run hot all the time. ![]() To give them a break and to let them cool down, I unplug the power overnight or when I will away for more than a few hours. The newer one frequently pauses charging at about 80% but sometimes goes to 100% which is when it gets the warmest. The newer one does not get quite as warm. The older one runs rather warm most of the time whether the CPU is busy or not. I mostly do programming which can be a bit CPU intensive at intervals. They both are hooked up to monitors most of the time meaning they are also hooked up to a power brick. Probably worth the price if you find yourself researching a lot copying different things for lawyerly duties or referencing case law, statutes, etc (I used to work for a law school designing and building their websites once upon a time, lol, so I’m somewhat familiar).I have two MacBook Pros one is a 2015 model (I think - it is in the other room) and the other is a 2018 model. It even formats things differently based on content like previews or hex colors show up as solid color blocks making for quick and easy reference and I’ll pin things like that for different projects. I use it a hundred times per day at least for web design and development and copying code snippets and blank code templates and various server commands. It’s still fairly basic but so freaking useful. They’ve barely added anything to the app since then, even though they claimed the recurring revenue model was for new feature development. ![]() But at least I’m on the grandfathered plan for a third of the price. When I first bought it, it was $9.99 one time purchase, then at some point they forced us early adopters onto a $9.99/yr plan that left a bad taste in my mouth because it refused to continue to work unless you upgraded, and it wasn’t even one of those things like “now it won’t work on a new version of macOS” it just stopped entirely. That being said, it’s $29.99/yr which is kinda bonkers. It’s really useful, and the iPhone App has a custom keyboard you can add that gives similar functionality, though not as streamlined. You can save your own reference clips and organize them and search them if you often reference certain things in your work. It has beautiful UI and UX that feels at home with Apple’s aesthetic. It syncs over iCloud between your Apple devices. Click to expand.Paste App (pasteapp.io) really is the best clipboard utility out there. ![]()
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