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Originally Posted by woob
I've got a late 2015 Macbook Air that I'm not ready to replace yet as it's still fully sufficient for what I use it for. However, the battery is in definitely need of replacement. I see that London Drugs is an authorized Apple repair location. Has anyone ever had a battery replacement done there? Do they use Apple OEM batteries? How was the pricing?
Alternatively, I have no provlem going to the OWC or iFixIt route, but I've read that their battery longevity can be hit and miss. Any experiences on that end?
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The 2015 Air design is pretty easy to DIY a battery replacement. Some of the newer laptop designs are kinda whacky, the 2015 MBA looks like it's still reasonable to do.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook...lacement/40697
https://macnest.com/macbook-air/macb...2013-2014-2015
Why not do that yourself and learn then also upgrade the SSD to a faster one? Also, when you have it open, give it a good cleaning.
After you've done it yourself once, it's pretty straight forward and you might find yourself popping it open again to do quick cleans. Even if you end up with a bit of a miss of a battery, because you've saved more than the value of the battery by not paying someone to install for you, you can just buy another to try again.
Longer term, even if the OS starts to get really outdated and wonky, you can easily breathe new lift into it again by installing a lighter Linux distro that doesn't suffer from as serious incompatibilities from being locked down to an older OS to continue to keep it as a spare laptop. With that type of refresh, even at its age, I think it'd still blow Chromebooks out of the water for a full featured laptop, especially if it continues to have a few hours of battery life due to a battery upgrade.