MacBook Pro 17″ battery change
Take another look at this picture… Did you notice it? One of the batteries looks like someone took a screwdriver and played around with the casing a little bit. It’s just — well, kind of blown up.
These are a) my old and b) my new battery for the MacBook Pro 17″. Roughly two weeks ago I noticed a drastic cutback on battery life — and my laptop was shut down multiple times without telling me something like “low battery”. These shutdowns took place immediately after the battery status predicted the availability of one and a half hours of battery life.
The normal behaviour is another one: My MacBook Pro runs 3-4 hours on battery and then tells me that there are “10 minutes left” to finish my work before it’ll go into stand-by to preserve my data.
Thanks to Apple I just got a new battery yesterday — but I had to work without any battery for one whole week. That’s hard if you’re used to walk around with your computer.
Below you see a detail shot I took: these are the two batteries, beneath each other on my desk — I know, there are way more impressive shots taken of this phenomenon, but hey, these two should have the same height!
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Hey my macbook 17 had been doing the same thing for the last week– it konks out at 30% with no warning, usually when I’m in the midst of an iChat. This morning I flip the laptop over, and the battery casing is all warped. Thanks for the posting this, thought my mac was going mad.
My one is working fine again since the battery was changed ‚Äthe week without battery wasn’t nice though‚Ķ
Yes, having this problem now….have removed the battery — leaving it in place essentially disables my touchpad/click.
I am based in Shanghai, anyone else had this issue and resolved it (for free) in town? If so, please drop me an email at adam.schokora@gmail.com
Thanks,
AjS