My macbook (retina, 12 inch, early 2015) has a battery cycle count of 488 (maximum cycle count is meant to be 1000) and it is already displaying the service battery warning and the battery struggles to last more than a few hours. Is this normal? I don't think its fair to pay for a battery service when I haven't actually received the full potential of the battery in the first place.
Macbook (2015 or later)
I don't think it's fair I can't win one of the big lottery drawings. Now we both have unrealistic expectations.
You "received the full potential of the battery" the moment you unwrapped/unboxed your MacBook. What you did with that potential is on you, not Apple. The 1000 charge cycle count is not a guarantee - it is a benchmark of where Apple considers the full utility of the battery has been reached. If you acted in a manner that fell short of that benchmark it doesn't mean you were cheated, it means you probably didn't follow Apple's guidelines for Mac notebook batteries.
I am sorry life isn't "fair", and good luck with your issue.
Nope
you should get the Service battery around 700 cycles
But your SMC might be confused......
so reset the SMC and make sure you did so successfully by watching the magsafe light flicker for a moment
Hope this helps!
Hi,
Try to check your battery with a utility, called Battery Health2 which is available at Mac App Store for free.
No, this is not normal. Let's do some testing of the battery. Download and install coconutBattery onto your Mac. Post an image of the coconutBattery window here for us to examine.
Is this normal?
It was for me.
Short Battery Life
