{"id":881,"date":"2008-03-03T13:56:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/macbook-pro-battery-replacement\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T09:41:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:41:58","slug":"macbook-pro-battery-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/macbook-pro-battery-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Pro Battery Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a little over a month ago, my MacBook Pro would just randomly shutdown when running on battery power even if the battery was still at around 60% charged. That really pissed me off because I really hate the process of having to restart and set up everything again before I can dive into work, not to mention the mysterious shutdowns was really getting me worried about data corruption (like it did to my Lightroom catalog<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I couldn’t really part with my computer for work reasons, so I hadn’t taken it to the Apple store because it might mean I’d have to leave my laptop there for a few hours (or even days). And I’d have to go through the motion of backing up everything again… But I decided to call Apple today anyway because it’s ridiculous that my less-than-one-year-old battery can now only stay unplugged for less than 1\/2 hour on a full charge!<\/p>\n

Apple told me was that batteries are “consumable goods”. And the tech support told me that an average battery life is for about 300 charge cycles<\/a>, and mine was reading 463<\/strong>! I told them it’s understandable that a battery would ultimately become less chargeable over time, but for its capacity to drop so drastically within a period of less than two months is unusual. <\/p>\n

They agreed. And a replacement battery is on its way courtesy to Apple.<\/p>\n

So my MBP will soon resume its role as a portable again. Yay!<\/p>\n

UPDATE 03.10.2008:<\/strong> My replacement battery arrived the next morning<\/strong> via DHL! Grace then called them to pick up the replacement unit the next morning; they came within a couple of hours… Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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