Hi JJW
Good point.
My current system is a late 2015 MacBook Pro (8Gb/128Gb). An ex-work machine I acquired as a “temporary” and portable machine when in 2022, ahead of a move in 2023. I’ve held onto it for the last 6 months as the house was priority.
As you’d expect the battery health is poor and I’ll get an hour between charges. However most of its use is at my desk, swapped out for my work-issued PC laptop. This is also where I plug in an external 27” display and a
USB hub with multiple external SSD and HDD extending the MacBook’s 128Gb of storage.
Battery life also dictates non-use, where I favour shut down and re-boot over sleep as the battery can’t sustain power for long periods of sleep. This also helps to clear the cruft from the meagre 8Gb of RAM.