Battery life while playing

Hello there this is my first post on the apple forums.

I have recently read about the battery cycles that the macbooks have, mine is a macbook pro 13 iris early 2015 and I have used 224 cycles of the 1000 and I have had it over 1 year now (in September).

I tent to charge it only when its over 28-34% of battery and up to 80-100% while using it so the life from it extends a bit more since I need this computer for my university studies and future for so I need it to be at full performance at least another 5 years if not more.

Now here is the deal... I love playing video games ** I don't have money for more computes so I play very often on the MacBook Pro League of Legends, Spiral Knights, etc. This means I need to charge it at last every 1 and 1/2 or every 2 games and I really play at least 3 to 5 games daily so that means at least 2 to 3 cycles from my battery every day and its quite a lot.

I had no problem on other windows laptops since what I used to do was removing the battery and using them like a desktop pc and only use the battery when ever I need them.

So my question is how can I stop killing my battery without having to stop playing since is my only killing time hobby that I got other than drawing.

Should I leave it charging while I keep playing all the time?

Should I keep plugging and unpuggling the energy like now?

Is there any way of "turning off" the battery and only using the plugged energy?

If I keep this way how long do you thing I will have a healthy battery and how much does it cost a new one for this model?

Any other recommendation?

Thanks for reading and leaving your comments 😉

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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015)

Posted on Jun 26, 2016 1:44 AM

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Jun 16, 2017 5:39 PM in response to Andrés C

Disconnecting the battery is not easy on a retina MBP. Not only is it inconvenient to do so, when the OSX detects that a battery is not available, it will throttle the CPU so performance is reduced. This will have a negative performance on the game application.


My advice is if games must be played, use your MBP as you have and accept the fact that a replacement battery will be required sooner.


Ciao.

Jun 26, 2016 5:01 PM in response to Andrés C

There are no strict guidelines to follow, unfortunately.


Keep the computer plugged in whenever possible.

If you keep the computer always plugged in,

make sure that at least twice a month

run it on battery until battery charge level drops to about 50-40%.


Please don’t discharge the battery completely.

Discharging battery completely will reduce battery health.


Cycle count is only one of the factors involved here.

Other factors are, age of the battery, the so called exercise factor (charging and discharging)

heat and stress.


For more useful info:

Section: Optimizing Battery Life

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204054

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