Hello. I have a Macbook Air Late 2018 with this settings and while I was working (Brave with several tabs opened and Microsoft Word) it shut down unexpectedly. I know I need to change the battery (service) But I've been postponing that cuz I don't have a lot of money to spare right know. Is it a battery related problem or something more serious? Thank you in advance.
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MacBook Air 13″
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Please do the following and we will try to troubleshoot the issue.
It will help us get a good idea of what is causing your problem if you provide a report of your system, that way we do not have to play 20 questions with you. The report we are requesting does NOT provide any personal information and is extremely safe to use. Please navigate towww.Etrecheck.com and download the free version of EtreCheck. Once you have you downloaded the app and installed it, please run the report and save it. This report will help us get a good idea what has been installed on your system and help us be able to diagnose what may be wrong.
When you have your report, you can attach it when you reply to this message and we can then review it and help you determine what is needed to get your system running well again.
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From the report
From my perspective and based upon the below findings
The sudden Shut Down are attributed to the Combination of Failed Battery and Lack of Empt Space on the Internal Drive
Battery failure - Your battery is reporting that it needs to be serviced.
Battery: Health = Service Battery - Cycle count = 1364
Low disk space - This computer is running critically low on free hard drive space.
disk0 - APPLE SSD AP0256M 251.00 GB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)
Size: 250.69 GB
Free: 14.14 GB
Available: 14.86 GB
From another contributor @etresoft regarding Free Space and Available Space
Free vs available disk space huge differe… - Apple Community
Quote >> “ The "available" storage is the amount of used storage that the operating system could automatically delete if it felt that it was really necessary. The "free" storage is the amount that you can actually use for something.
There are system processes that run in the background and automatically delete some of the "available" storage and convert it to "free". If you completely run out of storage, then those system processes will try a little harder. When you "delete" files you are just hinting to the operating system that you don't need those files anymore. The operating system will eventually remove them, but on its own schedule.
Certain tools will allow you to force the issue and manually clean up some of this storage and manually delete local snapshots. But that is only temporary. " << End Quote
Your computer is about to lockup completely and not be able to be restarted because: This computer is running critically low on free hard drive space. This means you need to free up space by moving large libraries such as your photos, music and movies onto an External Hard Disk.
In addition there is no evidence that you backup your computer, this is a 100% guarantee that you will lose your data!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Begin using Time Machine today if possible, it's easy and all that is needed is an External Hard Disk to backup to. If somehow you are not familiar with Time Machine please click Back up your Mac with Time Machine. A high quality External Hard Disk is the OWC Mercury Elite Pro, a 2tb model is fine. Ignore this warning and your next complaint will be lost data and you will find that once it's gone it's gone forever.
Finally your computer is a vintage obsolete machine which means it cannot run current versions of Mac OS, this in itself is not the end of the world however if you let it go long enough you will learn it will not be able to upgrade to software you need. In short, I am saying you should plan on replacing the computer within the next next year or two. When you do, please get one with more storage space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Follow the previous advise
On the next purchase, as deep are your pockets are
Purchase a machine with maybe 1 TB or larger SSD Drive and probably minimum of 16 GB or more Unified RAM
This should Future-proof this machine for at least 3 - 4 years or longer
Have a 3-2-1 Rescue Plan in place and always current
If you have used or are using Time Machine Backup Utility you maybe able to Restore the Deleted Files
3 Backups using 2 methods and 1 off site incase of natural disaster or un-natural disaster.
Each of the above should be done to a Dedicated Single Purposed External Drive
Below link is intended to augment what TM Backup does
The Machine Check kernel panic refers to a hardware issue with the CPU which means the Logic Board is bad. The MBAir 2018 model is known to have Logic Board failures. At one time Apple actually had a free repair program for the 2018 MBAir.
I don't recommend spending any money to repair any 2016-2020 USB-C Intel Macs for multiple reasons. The money spent on repairs is better put towards a new laptop. The M-series MBAirs will run circles around this one.
Edit: You should take the other contributors suggestions under advisement when you setup your new laptop.
I'm sorry for the delay. Here's the etrecheck report.
Macbook Air Late 2018 shuts down unexpectedly - why?
