MacBook Pro Batteries Swelling and Failing

JohnnyCakes writes "MacBook Pro batteries are apparently swelling, then failing. MacFixIt has some grotesque pictures of their own swollen MBP battery, which looks like it has suffered an internal explosion. Apple is replacing batteries on a case-by-case basis, but hasn't yet admitted any wide-scale issues."

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Re:Apple are shysters!

[drinkypoo]

How do you legislate a portable hard drive that can take 6 years of abuse?

You don't. You legislate that expensive portable devices should take six years of abuse. Apple decides what to put in the device, and what to sell in the UK. That's their decision. If that means they don't sell the hard disk-based iPod in the UK, so be it.

My iPod is 4 years old now and still works fine. I put in a new battery from NewerTech and it has double the battery life it did when it was new. I try to be careful with it.

That's nice. For the non-geeks among us, the battery problem is still a serious one. I personally plan to buy an iPod and only use it in the car, as a CD changer, where battery life is irrelevant.

Put it in the new mac commercials

[aplusjimages]

Maybe Apple will put it in their new mac commercials, but state that it's windows that has the problem and not mac. The battery burst could be represented by the fat man's fly bursting open and stuff oozing out.