Comment by jebarker

12 hours ago

I did this with the 11”, which was one of the greatest sized laptops for travel IMO, just had to replace the explody looking battery!

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w0m  10 hours ago

I'm down to ~10m of battery life on my i7 11" - any pointers on battery replacement? Laptop worked great otherwwise (retired it last year due to battery life)

  • bxparks  9 hours ago

    I tried eBay like 4 times. But they were all fake or defective. At least one of them was dead on arrival.

    I finally bought one from iFixit.com. Far more expensive than eBay, but the battery actually worked great for about a year. Then about a month after the 1-year warranty expired, it degraded noticeably (maybe to 80%) with only about 100-200 charge cycles. Even iFixIt cannot source a battery as good as the original Apple.

    Right now, it's at 65% capacity after 584 charge cycles, after 4.5 years of service. I will probably go back to iFixIt. At least I'll get one year of full capacity from them, instead of the fake or DOA ones from eBay.

  • jebarker  4 hours ago

    I used iFixit. I haven’t been tracking battery life really, but after a couple of years it’s still going strong

haunter  9 hours ago

This is what I want to do as well but the 8GB RAM version was CTO, eveywhere I look people are only selling the 4GB models

jll29  9 hours ago

11" is a great size - especiall if one has to work on a plane occasionally (economy class - not your own jet).