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Product Description
Apple notebook battery – Li-pol – 68 Wh
Device Type: Notebook battery
Battery: Lithium polymer 68 Wh
Batteries Qty: 1
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List Price: $ 165.83
Price: $ 90.00
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The first battery I received was an absolute failure, would not hold a charge and would not shut off automatically when fully charged. The second battery works as advertised and my only gripe is that it doesn’t fit as smoothly on the bottom of my Macbook as the original battery. The only really satisfactory aspect to this entire episode was the Brilliant Store which provided me the best customer service I have ever received.
Update: If I could I would lower this review to one star. The battery failed to hold charge after less than one year.
Update II. I gave up and finally ordered a replacement battery from Apple. Now, six months later it is working perfectly. My Macbook Pro will operate down to 1% charge remaining. Lesson, its better sometimes to spend a little more; in future I will only buy replacement parts from the Apple Store.
I’ve now had two of these batteries stop charging then expand to where they can no longer be seated in the laptop without causing problems. For a $3000 laptop and a $130 battery this is completely unacceptable. I don’t expect this or any battery to last forever, but the service life of these things is insanely short.
For Apple to suggest that this is normal behavior for a couple-year-old battery is ludicrous. To my mind they’re simply shrugging off responsibility for a defective product. Yes, there was a recall – but guess what? The batteries they didn’t recall often exhibit the exact same behavior and problems. I pointed this out at my local Apple store when inquiring about a replacement battery and was told essentially, “sorry, you’re out of luck”.
I’ve been a long time Apple supporter and own many Apple products. But this battery – and Apple’s attitude about it – has caused me to remove myself from the ranks of the Apple faithful. In the future I’ll look at Apple products last instead of first. Seriously Apple, WTF? You need to treat your customers better than this if you expect them to pay a premium for your products.
The one that came with my Macbook pro 17″ actually physically expanded and made the track pad useless, until the battery is removed. I had to remove the battery and run the laptop with power cable all the time to make it usable and also make the base flat (not hilly).
I suspect the application that caused super heating up the battery and made it physically expand was Skype video chat. Default video is 640×480 that causes the CPU to heat up and battery is right next to it. There are threads (using skype config.xml) on how to downgrade the Skype Video quality to 160×120 without causing heat-up and also not too much noticeable difference in video quality. Secondly, a down-loadable battery update patch is available from Apple site that prevents the heat-ups and deformations.
Conclusively, Apple batteries have a major fault that needs fixing. Other laptops don’t have battery problems with Skype video. I called Apple tech support to report a deformed battery but they did not help me since the problem occurred 2-3 yrs after laptop purchase.
Apple has some serious explaining to do: I’ve had 3 PC laptops and never had a battery fail so rapidly— and to physically expand!
Read the blogs on Apple’s own website, and you’ll see this problem is rampant. Some users’ batteries expand into the case and destroy the track-pad. But call Apple, and they’ll tell you, “All batteries expand when their fuel cells are empty,” and “Batteries are consumables so if you didn’t buy our extended warranty, you have to buy a new battery.” [NEVER MIND THAT ON THEIR OWN WEBSITE MORE THAN 370 USERS HAVE HAD THESE CRITICAL BATTERY FAILURES]. I have an HP from 2002 and the original battery is still running. Same for my 2004 Compaq, and even the original battery in our kid’s knock-around Dell (circa 1999) is still running.
Sorry to say, but Apple really stinks on this front. Their customer service is seriously dropping the ball and is not at all competitive with HP.
BOTTOM LINE: Don’t be surprised if your replacement batteries fail quickly (even Apple’s “Senior Advisor” says they don’t last longer than 300 charges or 9-15 months); and if your machine isn’t under warranty be sure to replace the battery every 12 months so it won’t expand and destroy your computer.
It works.
Holds a full charge.
Would’ve been 5 stars except for …
Bought this as a replacement for the battery that came with my MacBook Pro.
After just 18-months, that battery puffed up, broke itself apart and almost damaged the MacBook Pro as well.
Question is: How long will this replacement battery live?