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MacBook Pro Batteries Swelling and Failing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the boom-there-it-was dept.

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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  1. I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC....splat by katorga · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dress the Mac in a bomb belt.....

  2. Does Apple Give A Crap About Macs Anymore? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It is becoming clear that Apple no longer sees its future in the desktop computer market. Getting dumped by IBM and then being unable to find another PPC supplier, like that startup, must have been the writing on the wall for Apple and their dreams of regaining marketshare.

    Last I checked Apple was all the way down to 2 percent or so.

    The massive numbers of quality problems, the heat and poor battery life. Yeech. Apple must see their future in the digital media market and are most likely using these crappy Intel based Macs as a way to ease their way out of the desktop market. Essentially get people to pay them while they transition the company to being completely focused on music and movies.

    All x86 OEMs are destined for Asia and it is lunacy to think an boutique type x86 OEM in Apple is ever going to survive selling overpriced and pretty machines to the consumer or corporate world.

    Drop the troubled x86 Macs and try selling OS X to OEMs or even better sell off the good parts of OS X to Microsoft in exchange for adoption of Apple's digital media technologies.

  3. Re:Apple are shysters! by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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.

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  4. Put it in the new mac commercials by aplusjimages · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

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