• ChouxFleur
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    1722 days ago

    My mid 2013 MacBook air sees more use than any of my other devices.

    I bought it for £100 a few years back and haven’t looked back.

    • @atomp
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      221 days ago

      Out of interest, what kind of battery life do you get out of it?

      • ChouxFleur
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        221 days ago

        Depends - average would probably be about 2-3 hours? Not great but not awful for my use.

        I could replace the battery and improve this - ifixit sell the kits - but currently I have no need.

        • @atomp
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          221 days ago

          Ahh right, I’m getting about 4ish hours on my quite healthy battery on Mint, which felt short. I just fiddled about with TLP and dropped the discharge rate by half-ish. Otherwise it’s a great little low-cost device!

          • @linearchaos
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            19 days ago

            Running Ubuntu on my 2015 air I struggle to get 2 hours out of it. I was able to get TLP to bring it close to 4, But it was at the cost of being borderline unusable.