Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by simonh on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:59AM (#39613459)

Apparently many of them are replaced. I found a thread on Reddit where a few people were saying they've bought refurbs and they often have 0 or 1 charge cycles on the batteries, indicating they were replacements.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:56AM (#39614209)

So you, what, keep buying them and sending them back until you get one with a new battery? Even if that works for one person, it obviously doesn't work at scale because soon the ones they'd have left in inventory would be the ones without new batteries.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by simonh on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:53PM (#39619635)

Is a brand new battery really the minimum acceptable standard for a refurb? If got a refurb and it had 6 months usage on the battery for example, I think I’d be fine with that.

3 years no, but given brand new batteries is reportedly a common experience for refurb buyers of laptops a lot younger than that it seems unlikely that actually ever happens.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @03:59PM (#39621365)

> Is a brand new battery really the minimum acceptable standard for a refurb?

Of course not, it's a refurb, but that's the point. You know it's a refurb and you know it's not going to last as long as a new one. That's why the refurb sells at a discount.

> If got a refurb and it had 6 months usage on the battery for example, I think I’d be fine with that.

That's the other issue though. You can see the number of charge cycles but not e.g. how many times it was left in a car in the summer sun.

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