• ChouxFleur@lemmy.world
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      3 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.

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          2 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.

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            2 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!

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              20 hours 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.

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      2 days ago

      I have a mid 2014 Macbook Pro still running Catalina, I wanted to change it into arch, but it saw very use and mainly my wife use it to watch movies so it doesn’t really seems worth the effort.