Quote from: Tomop on July 31, 2024, 13:01:19After 1 1/2 year of use solely on charger, never charging to 100%, battery life is now less than 2 hours. Terrible crap.
What surprises you? The battery has a number of cycles. Usually 300-500. Some Apple gadgets claim 1000.
If a cheap model claims 500/365=1.5 years. You got what you wanted.
Personally, all my laptops are used exclusively from the power supply 100% of the time. They never turn off, going into sleep mode S3 (STR) when not needed. And so they work for 6-15 years. Battery wear on a laptop bought in 2016 is 6%. It is needed only as an emergency uninterruptible power source or for carrying from outlet to outlet in working or sleep mode.
Apple certainly behaves well when switching to battery power, losing less performance than x86 laptops, but the battery life is simply insufficient, given the average service life of a laptop of 5-6 years. The battery is just a consumable - you need to replace it with a new one. But if it is expensive, who is to blame for choosing such a model?