GoKawiilApple has updated its support documentation to confirm the maximum battery cycle count for the new MacBook Neo. Here are the details.
First things first: what counts as a battery cycle?
In a nutshell, each battery cycle corresponds to the number of times a Mac laptop consumes the energy equivalent of 100% of its battery capacity, across one or more charges.
Or, as Apple explains it:
For example, you could use half of your laptop’s charge in one day, and then recharge it fully. If you did the same thing the next day, it would count as one charge cycle, not two. In this example, it might take several days to complete a cycle.
In other words, if you use 50% of the battery today, recharge it, then use 30% tomorrow and recharge again, and finally use 20% the next day, that would correspond to one full battery cycle, even though the Mac was recharged three times, and the battery level never dropped below 50%.
So what about the MacBook Neo?
According to Apple, the new MacBook Neo has a 36.5‑watt‑hour lithium‑ion battery, which Apple says is enough to keep it running for up to 16 hours of video streaming and up to 11 hours of wireless web browsing.
Today, Apple updated the Determine battery cycle count for Mac laptops support page to include the maximum charge count for the MacBook Neo.
Based on the document, the MacBook Neo has a maximum cycle count of 1,000, meaning that after 1,000 battery cycles, it will be “considered consumed,” after which it’ll likely need to be replaced.
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