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by lotsofpulp 2009 days ago
You can easily notice the difference in a battery after it has gone through 500 charge cycles, which can easily happen in 2 years.

Even my mom has it happen from using Facetime all day.

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> You can easily notice the difference in a battery after it has gone through 500 charge cycles...

Of course, that's how batteries work. However, 500 charge cycles will likely not affect CPU performance but rather the battery life (which is why I said "enough for it to affect performance").

I had 1352 charge cycles and 75% battery health before replacing it and even though the battery life was shortened, I did not experience any sudden shut downs.