One of the recurring fears when buying a refurbished product is the condition of the battery. Back Market dispels fears with the possibility of buying a laptop with a new battery.
Back Market’s mission is to make reconditioning a reflex in order to limit the impact of our high-tech products on the environment. But for it to be so, we must remove all the barriers that make us hesitate to take the plunge. Among them: the battery.
While photo sensors, processors, screens or even memory are components that now age very well, this is not always the case for batteries. After a few years, their health declines, leading to a loss of autonomy… and the desire to change devices that goes with it.
Power at a reduced price thanks to Back Market.
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This is the reason why the leading refurbished marketplace now offers the option of new batteries on certain laptop models such as https://bit.ly/3OZWNj4. Thanks to this option, you have the assurance of a machine with impeccable autonomy.
When you buy a tech product on Back Market, you can be sure that it has been subjected to 25 inspection points by professionals and reconditioned in accordance with a demanding quality charter. All devices are healthy. Moreover, regardless of the condition of the machines, laptops are always delivered with a battery that has retained at least 85% of its capacity. This is generally enough for the average person. Especially on an M1 MacBook Pro, which benefits from the extreme energy efficiency of the M1 chip.
However, some users are more demanding because they cannot afford to sacrifice battery life. If you are one of those who opt for a Pro machine because you need to travel regularly with your laptop and therefore spend a lot of time away from an outlet, then the choice of a new battery makes perfect sense .
It’s not very complicated to explain: if you choose a new battery, it is… new. It therefore has 100% of its capacity, and you will be able to draw all its power from it throughout the day. Concretely, this corresponds to approximately two hours of additional autonomy compared to the market standard. Let us remember in passing that, of course, this battery was installed by professionals, according to the rules of the art.
MacBook Pro M1: 4 years old and all its teeth
If you follow high-tech news (which is likely since you read Les Numériques), you undoubtedly know that the MacBook Pro 2020 with Apple M1 chip has made a fundamental breakthrough at Apple: it is the first machine stamped “ Pro” to integrate the processor made in Apple, the famous M1.
The 2020 13.3-inch MacBook Pro weighs only 1.37 kg.
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This move to the efficient ARM architecture has enabled a major advance in terms of power and autonomy. So much so that 4 years later, the MacBook Pro M1 remains one of the laptops with the best performance / autonomy / size ratio on the market. As a reminder, this is an 8-core chip with an 8-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine. All combined with 8 GB of RAM and ultra-fast 256 GB storage.
Let’s not forget the no less excellent 13-inch 2560 x 1600 Retina screen, reaching a brightness of 400 nits and faithful colors thanks to True Tone (which you can deactivate if you need to work on a calibrated screen). This Pro model also offers two USB Type-C/Thunderbolt 4 ports to plug in everything you need with a wire, and Wi-Fi 6 to connect wirelessly.
All these little people fit in only 1.4 kg and 1.56 cm in height. The small bonuses lie in the presence of the Touch Bar and Touch ID. In short, you have everything, for a price quite far from that of new: even with a new battery, it will only cost you less than 900 euros compared to 1,449 euros at the time of its release.
