03.12
My Macbook Pro’s battery is getting weird on me.
The first indication of this, was the complete, unannounced shutdown with around 60% life left in the battery. Not your normal ‘hey, you might wanna save what you’re working on and then shutdown because your battery is nearly dead’, but ‘blink’ instead. Total shutdown with no warning. This has happened a few times now and when it does, the battery led’s show 0 and yet when you plug it into the wall and fire it up they show 3 led’s and between 50% and 60% life left.
I’m also noticing a slight bulging and worsening ‘fit’ in the battery area.
Heading to the Apple store tomorrow. If it doesn’t catch fire in the meantime (like this guy’s Macbook did) of course…
Update: So, I went to the Apple store in Bluewater having booked a genius appointment via the online concierge service. They listened to what was wrong and changed the battery there and then. No quibbles or anything. Brilliant service. As Ben says in the comments, try that at PC World…
You won’t believe this – but the exact same thing happened to me two weeks ago. Exactly. It got so bad my MBP wouldn’t work at all on battery, even when it said it was 100%. I called Apple and they sent me a free battery via DHL even though I was past my 6 month (or whatever it is) warranty. The new battery worked perfectly.
You say your battery is bulging… I have a MacBook (not Pro), and the battery seems to be sinking in. I wonder what that’s all about.
The Battery on my 6-month old 17″ died last month but with no warning…on the Eurostar it was fine, on the Slow-Mo to Brighton it wouldn’t hold a charge. No-quibble swap out at the Apple store thoough (I wonder if Pissy-World would do THAT on a £299 Acer?!)
I’m off to the Apple Store tomorrow to meet with a genius about mine… Will report back on results.
I had the same thing happen to me about 6 months ago. My Macbook is almost a year old to the day. It’s happening again now on the new battery that Apple put in a few months back. I’m going to make an appt at the Apple store again. I wonder if there’s a problem with the computers. I don’t have one of the defective batteries. Hopefully, they won’t give me a hassle considering this is the second time this is happening because this isn’t acceptable for a computer that’s only a year old.
The question should be why are the battries dying? who cares is the after service is good if you have to keep going to bluewater or whereever to get a replacement