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the first is simple keep your machine safe you would be surprised by how many
Macs die each year from falling so if you're taking it with you use a bag or a
sleeve and if it has magsafe make sure to use that so that if the cable gets
pulled your laptop won't fall down now you can also get AppleCare plus which
can now be purchased as a subscription without a time limit so that if it does
get damaged it will get repaired for much less money now when you're cleaning
your MacBook don't use heavy cleaners or random wipes instead use a super soft
towel and don't press down hard especially on the screen now for tougher
spots you can use electronic wipes which are safe for screens and they won't
damage that really good anti-reflectivity coating that is on
your screen talking about displays did you know that they can and do wear out
which is why some older MacBooks have discoloration or burn-in even with an
LCD display now our 2012 MacBook screen is excellent and a few ways that you can
get yours to last just as long is to not keep it at full brightness all the time
and keep the screen on you can also just lower the brightness and use dark mode
which will help but most importantly you want to make sure that you're using the
screen saver that is built in and make sure that your Mac is set to turn the
display off if you haven't used it in a while which also saves battery which
we'll cover in just a bit now one thing that damages opponents is extreme cold
or heat so it is best to keep your Mac indoors and not to leave it out in the
sun or in a car that can get really hot in the summer or cold in the winter with
that if you're pushing your machine hard it will heat up especially if you have a
fanless model now they are designed to Throttle Down to prevent damage but
there are a few things they could do to help first off if yours has a fan make
sure to periodically blow out the dust with an Electronics approved cleaning
duster because over time dust can build up and your Mac will run hotter and the
fans will run louder so you want to make sure to get that dust out second if
you're pushing your Mac hard and for a long time like for example when
rendering you want to make sure that you have it on a desk so those feet can
raise it up a bit and not on a blanket or something else that will cover up the
airflow and keep the heat in now if you want to take it a step further you can
use a laptop cooler which we have found that not only does it keep it cooler but
it also improves performance especially for fanless Max now when you don't need
maximum performance or you don't want your Mac to run hot you can also enable
low power mode I made a full video about this in detail but I've been using this
very often lately and loving it because with apple silicon MacBooks have really
good performance even in low power mode it's enough for most common tasks when
you have that enabled your Mac will use less wattage which keeps it running
cooler and if you have an M2 powered MacBook they have really powerful
efficiency cores so most of the time it will use just those in low power mode
and that makes it run super cool and it saves battery life which is really nice
now one of the first things that can go bad in a Macbook is the actual battery
so let's talk about how to make it last a long time now ride of the get-go
optimize battery charging should be enabled and you want to make sure it's
turned on in the settings now this makes it so the battery is opt
it will not charge too fast or stay too high if you're not using it just plug it
in and don't touch it kind of learns what you want to do now some people like
to keep their Macs plugged in all the time now a while ago that was bad now it
is not as bad as it was because even though it could say 100 it doesn't mean
that it is actually stuck there it will let it lower a little bit charge back up
and it can even just pull power from the charging adapter which is why I would
say if you care about longevity I would use a good quality one like the ones
that Apple give you with that you still want to unplug it occasionally and let
it drain down so the battery doesn't stay mostly charged for a very long time
have it run down to 20 and then charge it back up and that will increase
longevity as well now when you are charging it is better to plug it in and
let it charge up in one session instead of constantly plugging it into charge
and then you know charging a little bit and then unplugging it and it drains
down you plug it back in you'll have better Longevity if it's in one session
now if you're not going to use your MacBook for a long time it is better to
actually shut it down instead of just putting it to sleep now Max do a great
job about not wasting too much power but at some point it's going to go down to
zero and the battery is dead and it's actually bad to have your battery be
dead for a long time so shut it down if you're going to be leaving somewhere and
not using it and the same thing goes for keeping a battery at a hundred percent
for a long time which is why Apple's optimized charging feature will wait for
it to charge up to 100 until the time that you usually start to knead it and
at that point you'll just kind of hover at 80 percent now if you don't let your
battery go below 20 or above 80 percent in width that you charge in one session
that can double the longevity of your battery or even more so now
unfortunately apple does not have a setting in optimized charging to limit
it to 80 but there is some code that you can use and some third-party
applications that will cap it at 80 percent so if you care about it lasting
a very long time for example 10 years that will definitely help and if you
want to take it a step further it is actually better to use a slow charger
than a fast charger now uh Apple devices and MacBooks will automatically fast
charge up to 50 and then they'll slow down because fast charging puts out more
heat and then your battery will degrade faster so that's already good but if you
use a slower charger in general that will help even more and most of the time
I actually use a 67 watt charger with my MacBook so if you follow those charging
tips your battery will last a very long time longer than you need your MacBook
now there are other components that do wear out and the biggest one is the SSD
now ssds and other dry lives they're not rated to last forever a lot of the ssds
on the base models they're rated for 150 terabytes written or 300 and that means
that once you write that much data it's pretty much worn out and it could die on
you now once you upgrade from a 256 Giga model to a 512 that will actually double
the amount of data that you can write on there so even if you don't need a 112
gigabyte SSD having double the longevity of the SSD and the amount of data you
can write will basically double its lifespan so that is great if you can
afford it I would say to upgrade to that now along with that RAM does matter if
you don't have enough RAM for example of an eight gigabyte model what ends up
happening is if you have many applications open or even a lot of tabs
there'll be extra data that gets written to the SSD offloaded to maintain your
performance now that is a good thing but if you have a gigsaw happens way more
often than with a 16 gigabyte model so if you can afford to upgrade to 16 gigs
that will also drastically reduce the amount of data that's written to your
SSD and that can also improve your performance so that also really helps
your long-term longevity so don't skimp out to buy the base model if you want
your MacBook to last for example 10 years it will be much better if you can
spend a little bit more money and with that the performance and the capacity is
also increased which will you know extend the amount of time that your
machine runs at good performance and that you want to use it so there you
guys go if you have other tips go ahead and put them down in the comment section
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