MacBook Pro asking for battery service after 200 cycles?

Question

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Good afternoon, I have a MacBook Pro 13 2017. I use the laptop in different ways, I write something, I watch something I
often used the laptop without charging (well, in terms of taking it somewhere and not plugging it in to charge)
System information shows that the laptop has lived 208 recharge cycles, and in the menu battery appeared die "Service Required". But ... did Apple claim 1000 battery charge-discharge cycles? Or am I just using my laptop incorrectly?..
Off topic: I was just about to sell my laptop, and here in the battery information there are such big words "Service required" :(

Answer 1

I also have a MacBook Pro 13 2017 and at ~500 cycles a message appeared about the need to service the battery. Most of the time, the macbook worked connected to charging and monitors as a stationary. At the same time, if you remove it from charging, then the behavior was random - after 20 minutes it could show a charge of 30%, it could have 60%, and after a while it simply cut down on power.
Because I used it mainly connected to the network, then I didn’t worry about this until the battery completely died (after 4 months) - when it started to show always 0% and the poppy worked only from the network.
But with this mode of operation, there were problems with performance, because. the standard power supply is not enough to work at maximum load, and therefore the macbook reduced the processor frequency to unbearable, which was a good motivation for me to go to the service center. :)
I chose the official SC, among those that are on the apple.ru website. I must say right away that there are not so many of them there (it happened in Moscow time), and I called everyone to find out the price. The price range surprised me - from 17 to 50 tr. for the same work.
Why such a price? Officials do not change the battery, but the so-called. top case as a whole - which includes: keyboard, speakers, battery, touchpad, aluminum cover.
Why such a price difference? I didn’t go into details, but from what I understood, Apple has such a policy that if you come with a working battery, but with a great desire to replace it (little, not satisfied with the battery life), then you will be charged the replacement cost almost at the price details (top case costs 65 tr separately). And if you have a message that service is required, then the price will be lower (in my case, 17 tr). I do not exclude that many SCs (including the SCs of the Restora) take advantage of this and try to heat up the consumer.
Not an official SC (called one for interest) offered me 10 tr. for replacing ONLY the battery, not the top case.
Thus, to get a completely new top case (I already had one speaker wheezing there) for 17 tr. I thought it was a great deal and asked for a replacement. :)
For 3 months already the flight is normal, 33 cycles.

Answer 2

There are different terms of use. 1000 cycles is a guarantee when everything is fine. In fact, he is 2k purple. If at 200 cycles something was either spilled there, or there were some overheatings, or it was corny too often connected and disconnected from the power

Answer 3

Li-ion batteries do not like to be constantly charged at 99-100% (they also do not like to be completely discharged at 0%). From this, gases begin to form in them and they can even be torn open (google "battery swelling"). If your macbook is constantly connected to the outlet - you do not give the battery a chance to work, it deteriorates from this. A small number of charge cycles suggests that the MacBook was almost always connected to the outlet and the battery was always at 99% -100%. If you use a mac as a desktop, it's better to buy a desktop mac :) Or observe battery hygiene - regularly discharge up to 20% for example (once a week), and use programs that prevent the battery from charging up to 100% (google "al dente mac"). BigSur can automatically manage the battery charge, but it is not yet clear how it works.