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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."
We here a lot of this kind of thing - faulty Mac products. But they don't usually pan out, so why give it much thought ?
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Apple's next OS X update will ensure that random MacBooks will explode in a ball of flames. Apple, after all, wants to do everything a PC can do, but better, right?!
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Damn Viagara!!!!!!!
For more info, visit the battery manufacturer's website.
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Your new MacBook Pro is in the mail, along with a complementary gift basket.
ah.clem
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You put the words "grotesque" and "pictures" right next to each other and made them a link... which had predictable results on the responsiveness of the MacFixIt server. That might be some kind of record.
You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.
There's no problem. You people are a bunch of whiners. Batteries are supposed to explode, computers are supposed to moo, laptops are typically too hot to rest on your lap and plastic naturally turns pink. Perfectly acceptable. Apple hardware is the best in the world, period.
If they keep swelling and failing, then perhaps they need some supplements. More information readily available in your mail account. But act fast, this offer ends soon!
I haven't had any problem with my iMac Core Duo since I got it in February.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Absolutely. Should be right up there with "don't get involved in a land war in Asia." I've been telling my friends to wait until the second generation. My G5 will last me until the second generation of Intel-powered desktop machines.
I am a believer of momentum and curves.
...and what happens if you say *Macbook* while waiting in line at the airport?
Always be polite.
How many times do we have to tell you? Don't buy first-gen Apple hardware!
Shh. Be quiet. How do you think the errors get found for the 2nd+ gens?
My Intel iMac (20" version) has also been rock-solid. I love the thing.
Sharpies don't just sniff themselves.
I clicked once on a slashdot link that led to grotesque pictures of swollen parts. That was also quite a wide-scale issue, very wide in fact. I'm not falling for that one again.
For Lithium Ion Polymer (or LiPo for short) batteries to swell like this one or more of the following has to have happened:
1. The battery was discharged below its safe discharge voltage threshold.
2. The battery was discharged at a current higher than the rated sustained discharge current rating.
3. It was a boy computer placed too close to a girl computer.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
I've learned not to trust anything that's white, & takes the country by storm, like Pilgrims or Cocaine, or Apple Products.
Being white, I don't even trust myself !
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Is that your battery, or are you happy to see me?
-- Terry
Reputation for great customer service my ass! I called their tech support line last week when my IIe stopped reading diskettes, and they said they "don't support legacy platforms"! Kids today, with their iBlogs and their MyDiggs, makes me sick... back in my day, we had to flip the diskettes over to read more information, in the snow, uphill both ways!
I've had the same experience my my mini core duo.
Solid as a rock, and about the same size as a nice, interesting one. Not at all like the ones in my bag now, which, come to think of it isn't my bag at all. It's very similar, but it's not mine. Gah! What's with this towel? Pink?!?
I don't see anything. These battery issues must be SEP.
And you got modded up for saying so. I love zealotry.
Hey, I own a Core Duo MacBook Pro. No problems that I'll cop to. Can I have some mod lovin too?
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Where exactly did you stick the battery in your iMac?
Oh...there isn't a battery in your desktop?
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Was that a first generation IIe?
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Thank you, single data point! You always end any argument.
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I bet more than half the Slashdot readership has problems with swelling in their laptops.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Mac- Hello I'm a Mac
PC- And I'm a PC
Mac- Y'Know I can do a lot of fun stuff like arrange pictures and--
PC- Err what's that huge lump growing out of your side? And why are your clothes covered with yellow stains?
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Thank you, that was just priceless. And next time your power supply catches fire, remember to add nosmoke.sys to your win.ini . Upgrading to OS X 10.5 also fixes those dead MacBook LCD pixels... [no, no not really]
Next time your neighbor needs help, he is better off FSCK-ing himself than listening you you, is what I am saying
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Bottom line, you Windoze and *nix folks: don't think you can poke fun. We're strong, we're united, we love our meringue-tinged MacBooks and MacBulger Pros and we'll continue to love them even if they start to fill out in back like John Merrick, the Elephant Man. It could be worse; we could be stuck on Dell machines getting carpal tunnel from jamming our trackpad fingers on that impossible START button found in the left corner of XP--now, there's a basis for a recall if ever there was one. I weep for you poor, START-bound Windoze users. And Linux? Please, Spock. Understand: nobody licks a prompt. Nobody.