Full Charge Capacity of mid 2014 Macbook Pro

The health and life of your battery will to a large degree be how you use it. Deep discharges will shorten the life of the battery as well as having it connected to AC 100% of the time. Since I have no idea how you use yours I cannot give you any meaningful reply.

However here are Apple support articles that you may find informative:

https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/batteries_power/

Ciao.

Batteries in a MBP are the most volatile, least consistent and least reliable component in a MBP. You may find that the charge values over a prolonged period time will go both up and down.

To alleviate your concerns, I strongly suggest that you make an appointment at an Apple store genius bar and have them test your battery.

Ciao.

Around 400 mAh deduction is not so much considerable, given that you have already 14 cycles registered and it may have also happened depending on the way of use.

The 2 most fiercest enemies of macbook battery are Deep Discharges and Heat.

Never ever in your life let your macbook drain down to a level of around 2% - 3% or wait for your battery to completely drain up. Remember that laptop batteries are not designed in the way mobile and tablet batteries are designed. The mobile batteries won’t be affected very severely like the laptop batteries if they go in deep discharge state.

Always, try your best to run your macbook as cool as possible and avoid the heat. Continuos excessive heat can also severely affect the macbook battery. Avoid playing games or graphic intensive apps to run continuously for a long considerable time period. Always use your macbook on a hard surface and never on any bed or couch. Use a hard board or a cooling pad if you intend to use it on your lap.

You should only keep it connected to the AC power when in use. Always disconnect it when putting in sleep or during shutdown. Make it a habit to drain the battery to the level of around 50 - 60% of the full charge once or twice a month.

I think so, you should use it for couple of days and see how the battery behaves. If the battery capacity declines drastically, then you should make an Apple genius bar appointment.

Hope this helps.......

- Granel.

You are not alone with battery concern. I got my 15 inch retina macbook pro brand-new less than a month ago, this last June. It is mid-2014 top-of-the-line model, A1398. Its full charge capacity started out as 89.3 Wh. Now after 5 load cycles, it takes about 86 Wh which is significantly below the proposed capacity of 95 Wh for 2014 models and 99.5 Wh for 2015 models. It could run as short as 4 hours without charge and normally about 6 hours according to the battery health app. I didn't do any gaming or other power-hungry operations by far. I wonder whether my battery would be seen by any chance as defective thus covered by 1 year warranty for a replacement, or is it necessary?

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