{"id":17048,"date":"2017-01-29T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T21:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17048"},"modified":"2017-01-29T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T21:31:10","slug":"how-much-has-that-mac-been-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/29\/how-much-has-that-mac-been-used\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Has That Mac Been Used?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackungfu.org\/FindinghowmuchaMachasbeenused\">Keir Thomas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mackungfu.org\/FindinghowmuchaMachasbeenused\">\n<p>This is obviously only of use on a MacBook (including Pro\/Air), but the number of times a battery has been charged is useful information. This is represented as the charge cycle figure. A low charge cycle figure on an older Mac means one of two things: either the Mac hasn&rsquo;t been used much or &#x2013; and perhaps more likely &#x2013; the Mac has spent most of its life attached to its charger, so might rarely have left the owner&rsquo;s home or office. Either way, a low number is good news.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This figure is approximately the number of hours the drive has been powered-up since it was installed in the computer.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If the user you&rsquo;re buying the Mac from has never reinstalled macOS\/OS X then you can find out exactly when they first powered-up the Mac and completed the initial setup. Just open a Terminal window as described above and paste in the following:<\/p>\n<pre>ls -l \/var\/db\/.AppleSetupDone<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Thomas: This is obviously only of use on a MacBook (including Pro\/Air), but the number of times a battery has been charged is useful information. This is represented as the charge cycle figure. A low charge cycle figure on an older Mac means one of two things: either the Mac hasn&rsquo;t been used much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,1381],"class_list":["post-17048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-12"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17050,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions\/17050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}