New Mac has 3 battery cycles

Three cycles could be explained with

  • One load cycle after the battery was manufactured (as part of the testing)
  • One load cycle before the Mac leaves the factory (to make sure you can just boot it up when you get it)
  • One you did yourself

but we have no easy way of knowing whether this is correct. Nevertheless I would probably only be worried if the cycle count of a new battery is higher than 10.