Unfortunately that’s not possible for “modern” MacBooks. If you had a removable battery, your best bet is to disconnect the battery after charging it 50%. If there’s a flaw in the battery it’s going to swell regardless. Batteries have a limited number of “cycles” unplugging uses those cycles, and that reduces the batteries longevity. With Li Ion batteries you leave them plugged in. He was thinking about the older type of batteries. Side note: if you have a MBP that has a swollen battery AND that battery caused additional damage, like breaking the trackpad and/or the top case it isn’t uncommon (though not guaranteed) for Apple to replace the trackpad and top case at no charge when you pay to replace the battery. However, over-charging is one reason why batteries swell so perhaps the guy at the Apple Store was just confusing the two.
That won’t necessarily cause the battery to swell but can result in a battery that just won’t hold a charge. Leaving the MBP plugged in to power continuously can wear the battery out in a fairly short time (I mean that in the sense of someone who uses their MBP as if it were a desktop computer so it just sits there for a couple of years, plugged in). The replacement eventually swelled too, but fortunately these batteries were easily removable, so I just took it out and gave up on batteries for that one. I pointed out to him that all of the laptops in the store were also plugged in with charged batteries, but he stuck to his story.
That means you can connect it to the Pro Display XDR at full 6K if you happen to have an extra $5K lying around.I had to replace a swollen MBP battery several years ago (with the same trackpad problem described above), and at the time the guy in the Apple store told me it was my fault for leaving the laptop plugged in after the battery was fully charged.
If you upgrade to the higher-end models with four Thunderbolt ports, you’ll get new integrated Intel Iris Plus Graphics that deliver “up to 80 percent faster performance” over the previous Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655. We might not have gotten the AMD Radeon Pro graphics cards that are in the 16-inch models, but the new MacBook Pro still packs much-improved graphics options. The new 13-inch MacBook Pro dumps the butterfly keyboard once and for all. That means the bezels around the screen are just as thick as they were before and don’t adopt the new thinner bezels introduced with the 16-inch model. And where the 16-inch MacBook Pro brought skinnier bezels and a refined design that fit a larger screen into a similar body as the 15-inch model, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro has the exact same 11.97 x 8.36 x 0.59 inch dimensions as last year’s model.
Want: Skinnier bezels and a bigger screenĭespite rumors of a larger screen, the new MacBook Pro has the same 13.3-inch 2560×1600 display. It still starts at $1,299 and goes up to $1,999 for standard configurations. While Apple lowered the price of the new MacBook Air when it launched last month, the 13-inch MacBook Pro hasn’t gotten any cheaper. Sadly, the bezels on the 13-inch MacBook Pro aren’t any skinnier. And now you can bump the storage all the way to 4TB on the higher models-but it’ll cost you $1,200 for the pleasure, nearly the cost of another MacBook Pro. Just like the MacBook Air, Apple has doubled the storage on the 13-inch MacBook Pro across the board, so you’ll get 256GB with the entry-level models and 512GB with the higher configurations before you need to spend extra on upgrades. And Apple hasn’t changed the layout either, so they’re both on the same side, which makes for some tricky cord management. You have to spend at least $1,799 to get four USB-C ports on the 13-inch MacBook Pro since the base models still only have two. That’s not quite as high as the 64GB in the 16-inch model, but we’ll take it. While the two lowest models still get 8GB with a $100 16GB option, the higher-end configurations start at 16GB of RAM and are configurable to 32GB of RAM for an extra $400. Nearly three years later, Apple has finally given its micro MacBook Pro an upgrade.
When the 13-inch MacBook Pro launched in 2016 with just 8GB of stock RAM, it was the absolute bare minimum needed to call it a professional machine. The new MacBook Pro looks exactly the same as the old one, but there are lots of improvements inside.