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That will, of course, vary widely depending on how you use your Mac. In practical terms, though, if you go through one full battery cycle per day, every single day, it would still take about 2.7 years to reach the 1,000-cycle mark. For lighter usage, around 0.3 cycles per day, that timeline could stretch even longer to roughly nine years. Finally, 1,000 battery cycles is on the top end of what Apple currently offers, leaving the MacBook Neo alongside most MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air models that Apple has sold since 2009. BEfore that, battery count limits used to vary between 300 and

Here are Apple’s official instructions to check out your Mac’s battery cycle count: Hold the Option key and click the Apple menu , then choose System Information. Under the Hardware section of the System Information window, select Power. The current cycle count is listed under the Battery Information section. To learn more about battery cycle counts for Mac laptops, follow this link. And the sure to check out 9to5Mac’s review of the MacBook Neo.