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Q: My week old 2015 Macbook appears to not hold a charge very well

I've had a 256GB 13.3 " Macbook air for a week and have noticed that the battery drops pretty quickly (at least to me)

 

I was impressed about the selling point of the 12 hour battery life ( I don't expect to get that every time, depending on the programs that I'm using)

However I've noticed that just using safari and browsing the internet, that the battery percentage drops 2-3% points after browsing the internet for roughly half an hour.

I'm not streaming videos or Spotify, or any major other apps, literally just reading articles on Safari.

 

Is this normal for a Macbook air?

 

Finally, how often should I charge it? Should I wait for the battery to go all the way down, then do a full charge? Or only do a half charge?

I've only charged it one time so far (going from 5% charge to about 70% charge)

 

Thanks.

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 30, 2015 5:39 PM

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