Newly purchased MBP Retina 13" - BatteryGuard shows 2 month old

Hey everyone,

I just bought a MacBook Pro Retina 13" from BestBuy and Battery Guard shows that it is 2 months old with 1 cycle.

If I had bought the MacBook Pro from Apple Store directly, would it show a similar battery Age or would it be like a few days old? Thinking about whether or not I received old stock.

Thanks in advance!

 

2 months old isn't really that bad. Apple hasn't exactly refreshed their rMBP lineup for several months now. A rMBP you buy from the Apple Store might be slightly newer, but it should not make much of a difference. The wear level of the battery is much more important. I'm not familiar with Battery Guard, but something like HWinfo or HWmonitor can track the wear level of your battery. It should be 0% for a new battery. If it is, then there's really nothing to worry about as if your computer was sitting in inventory somewhere unused, it does not really deteriorate it at all.

 

I bought my 2011 MacBook Pro in July 2012. It was manufactured in February, had only 1 cycle on the battery, and has been working fine for me for nearly 3 years. You have nothing to worry about.

 

I previously had a bad experience buying from BestBuy, hence I'm being more cautious. Thanks very much for the reassurance guys!

 

I know it seems perfectly reasonable that there is a factory in the back of every single Apple Store, where they produce MacBook Pros from blocks of aluminum and plastic and silicon. It's sensible, really. That mall store literally fabs and produces Macs.

No, that's not reasonable.

Your Mac was made, piece by piece, in China. The battery was made at 'some time' and the CPU was made at 'some time' and the logic board and Retina screen and the aluminum case were all made at 'some times.' These pieces were eventually assembled into your laptop. It was put into a warehouse, and then on a ship, and then it sailed across the seas, and then was put on a train, then a truck, then it was delivered to the store. The store inventoried it and put it in a back room where it was eventually put out into the showroom stock.

This entire process takes more than a few days.

 

Thanks for the condescending attitude. Really appreciate it.