My MacBook Pro Battery Swelled Up!
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Wow, we really need to fix our MacBook Pro battery issue before things really get bad.
We first reported our troubles with our beloved Mac notebook last week and then the new week started with a replacement program from Apple, direct, explaining our problem. Well, we’ve been just a wee-bit busy here at SOT and haven’t had a chance to fill out that dandy form.
Today when we pulled out our MBP from our Swiss Gear backpack today, we found a bulge on the bottom of the unit. That bulge was from the the battery and it appears it gained some weight and blew up, as in expansion. No evidence of fire or sparks anywhere which made us all happy here at SOT and the Mac booted right up. In fact, it wrote our last session to disk (ala hibernate of Windows XP fame) and put us right back where we started from. Very nice!
After our heart beat came back down to a normal pace, we picked up the phone and called AppleCare (all good Mac-heads slap down the big bucks for this right?). About 30 minutes later a nice young man helped us get a new battery our way. About three days is what we’re told on getting the new puppy and do note, our AppleCare representative didn’t seem a bit surprised with our issue. Seems we’re not the only ones with this problem.
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3 Comments
Mike
February 26th, 2007
at 6:07pm
It’s 2/2007 and I just had the same problem with my 17 inch MacBook Pro Core Duo purchased 6/2006. After a very short conversation, Apple will send a new battery. I’m worried though the heat from the Core Duo will cause this to happen again or something new.
Tom Murphy
October 5th, 2007
at 6:14am
I just had this problem as well, my MAC is about a year 1/2 old well out of warranty. I called 1-800-SOS-APPLE and the tech was very helpful and they are sending me a new battery. I asked him if this is a new issue since they did have a recall on the 15 in but not the 17 inch. He said, no it was not a new problem and did not go into detail. Sounds like a silent recall to me.
Les Garten
March 4th, 2008
at 11:33am
Same thing happened to my MacBook Pro 17″ Today. Trackpad was going nuts. This is very dangerous for a few reasons. First, the reason why this issue causes the trackpad to have problems is because of pressure on the underside of the computer.
Additionally, Lithium batteries can go up in Flames and burn your whole house down, and you don’t know when they are going to do it. These are Li-Poly batteries and not Li-ion batteries, but they are Lithium nonetheless. Called Apple and they are cross shipping me one gratis. Guess they don’t want my house to burn down either. I have mine on the back porch so if it catches fire it won’t burn the house down till I can get it out of here.