Confusing Battery behaviour - need advices
Dear community,
I am using two battery utilities to check and take care of it :
- AlDente Pro to limit the charge to 80% when plugged in working at home.
- Coconut Battery to check the health from time to time (for my iPhone and iPad too).
Until 5 days ago I was using a M2 Pro MBP 16, used those 2 utilities for months with it, keeping the battery health at 100% and the cycles low.
5 days ago I received a brand new MacBook Pro 16 M3 Max, so was kind of early Christmas for me.
However when I unboxed my new M3 I found out that, with Coconut Battery:
- Battery was 3 cycles already.
- The "Full Charge Capacity" was already 98% out of the box.
First it was quite a surprise as with my M2 Pro the battery had 0 cycles and like 103% full charge capacity...
First of all what do you think ? Is this to be expected ?
Secondly the battery behaviour seems odd as the "Full Charge Capacity" is fluctuating a lot between like 99 and 97 many times a day.
I though maybe Coconut has it wrong, but doing research it appears that it is mainly displaying the result of the command "ioreg -w0 -l | grep Capacity" in the terminal that gives 3 values.
See the attached image comparing the Coconut Battery values and the terminal command values.
The point is also that the macOS battery menu says that the battery health is 100%, but as you can see I do not understand on which basis it can conclude that.
Why is the "AppleRawMax Capacity" fluctuating so much ? How is the "Max Capacity" = 100 computed ?
So my final question is should I send it back and ask for a replacement unit ?
Thanks for your insights !
MacBook Pro (M3, 2023)