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Friday, August 4, 2006
Wow, we really need to fix our MacBook Pro battery issue before things really get bad.
We first reported our troubles with our beloved Mac notebook last week and then the new week started with a replacement program from Apple, direct, explaining our problem. Well, we’ve been just a wee-bit busy here at SOT and haven’t had a chance to fill out that dandy form.
Today when we pulled out our MBP from our Swiss Gear backpack today, we found a bulge on the bottom of the unit. That bulge was from the the battery and it appears it gained some weight and blew up, as in expansion. No evidence of fire or sparks anywhere which made us all happy here at SOT and the Mac booted right up. In fact, it wrote our last session to disk (ala hibernate of Windows XP fame) and put us right back where we started from. Very nice!
After our heart beat came back down to a normal pace, we picked up the phone and called AppleCare (all good Mac-heads slap down the big bucks for this right?). About 30 minutes later a nice young man helped us get a new battery our way. About three days is what we’re told on getting the new puppy and do note, our AppleCare representative didn’t seem a bit surprised with our issue. Seems we’re not the only ones with this problem.
August 4th, 2006 at 14:36
Apple has a general recall already. I’m surprised you don’t know about this.
https://support.apple.com/macbookpro15/batteryexchange/index.html
August 4th, 2006 at 15:08
That’s the baterry that’s exploded. I don’t have a laptop so i don’t know. If it was how did you get it out and was there any other damage to your machine? Hope it all ends well.
And yes Applecare pays for itself pretty quickly on a 1.0 version.
August 4th, 2006 at 15:25
I sent my MBP (which i LOVE) in for service last week (stuck display latch) and they replaced the battery while they were at it
August 4th, 2006 at 18:12
Hey James, thanx for the heads up but we did report about the recall when it was announced (hence the link in the above article.
Mcloki, no damage done to our beloved MBP. We’re glad we didn’t have to send it in like Mark had to ’cause we can’t live without it. Though it may end up happening if the whining sound acts up (we tolerate it right now.)
August 13th, 2006 at 10:11
I had the same thing happen to my battery on my MPB. The worst part was the battery couldn’t hold a charge at all so I had to do all my work with the power cord attached. This wasn’t too bad except I would sometimes accidently unplug it during a blog post
August 14th, 2006 at 5:31
Mac Book Pro 15″ Battery: Well, my baterry just stop working. My laptop doesn’t recognize the baterry hardware. Even with the battery attached, the system doesn’t show anything. Besides this recall on those, do you guys know anything to helpe out? I think it’s a software problem, not phisical yeat.