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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Topics covered in this issue…
• How many times can you recharge your MacBook’s battery?
• How (and why) to hide Notifications from your phone’s Lock screen
• Q&A: Are Chromebooks good for watching YouTube videos?
• Q&A: Why does the temperature drop as elevation increases?
• January’s Tech Tips Giveaway – Win this ViewSonic VX3276-4K-MHD 32 Inch 4K UHD Monitor
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Today’s featured tech tip….
How many times can you recharge your MacBook’s battery?
As you probably know, the batteries in modern laptops and other gadgets can only be charged a finite number of times before they’ll fail to hold a usable charge.
Charging your device’s battery from empty to full constitutes one charge cycle. The thing is, one recharge doesn’t necessarily use up an entire charge cycle.
For example, if you plug your machine in to charge after depleting the battery to 50%, that only uses up one-half of a charge cycle. That means you can charge it from 50% again tomorrow and those two days’ charges together will use up one full charge cycle.
In practice, you should be able to charge your battery more times than the stated max number of charge cycles unless you completely deplete the battery charge virtually every time you use the machine.
So how many times will you be able to charge the battery in your particular MacBook?
There’s no way to come up with an exact number but you can get a rough ball-park figure by determining the max number of charge cycles your particular MacBook’s battery is rated for and subtracting the number of cycles you’ve already used.
Now take the number of charge cycles remaining and think about how use your MacBook.
Do you typically use the machine until the battery is depleted to around 50% and then put it on charge? If so, you can take the number of charge cycles remaining and double it.
If you tend to recharge your battery from various states of discharge you’ll have to just use your best guess as to how many actual recharges it’ll take to use up the remaining charge cycles.
Sound confusing and difficult? Well, it really isn’t.
This Apple Support page has all the detailed info you need in order to calculate a rough estimate of how many more times you’ll be able to recharge your MacBook’s battery.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• How (and why) to hide Notifications from your phone’s Lock screen
Do you value your privacy? If so, you need to do this.
• Q&A: Are Chromebooks good for watching YouTube videos?
The short answer is yes. This post explains why.
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
Rick’s Daily Pick…
ASUS Zenbook S 13 OLED Ultra Laptop
Looking for a Windows laptop that’s easy to take along with you when you travel, yet powerful enough to get most any job done in a hurry? If so, this little gem is well worth a hard look.
Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Q&A: Why does the temperature drop as elevation increases?
There are actually several reasons.
Tech news that caught my eye…
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• Mozilla pivots towards AI future as Firefox market share declines
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