Reviews for Rechargeable Battery - 15-inch MacBook Pro

Dead after 71 charge cycles. It lasted about 1 year and 2 weeks.

Pretty bad for mac to have this issue, im on my second battery and already dead! evrething else is great...

I'm now on my 3rd battery. You guys should really fix this issue--it's ridiculous that I can't use my Macbook on the go...

I hate these things. I've bought two of these in the three years I've owned a macbook pro.

Absolutely terrible and over-priced. Most PC batteries are half the cost and last longer.

Such a shame to pay a premium for a laptop and then to get nickel and dimed on an over-priced battery.

Within weeks I began to wonder if it was my old battery I had accidently inserted. It was not! within a couple more weeks my wife asked if it was the old battery - she NEVER notices these things. Within a month more, I was lucky to get an hour's use. Totally worthless, and at a 10% cost of a new laptop I was livid! Do yourself a favor, DO NOT buy this product!!!

I'd use no stars if I could.

I've been a user of PC's and Mac's. In my experience so far 2 years is doing well. I currently have a 4 year old macbook pro 15" 2.16GHz. I am on my second battery. Two years on the first and two years and counting on the second. While I would like for them to last longer my experience with Sony laptop batteries has been about the same lifespan (really quite a lot worse with most dells), so I rate this as average.

Would love it if they brought some of the new battery technology in the latest gen laptops to this older form factor, but I know I am dreaming there.

These batteries are not robust - even when careful about limiting the number of cycles and charging fully, they do not last very long - maybe a year if you are lucky - before they lose their full charge in less than an hour doing simple tasks. I am about to start on my third battery in 3 years and the one in there now can't even hold onto it's dwindling charge long enough to warn me - the computer will just lose power. As part of an otherwise fabulous machine, I am angry I have to buy yet another one of these.

I'm having a MBpro (spring 2008) and it is still running with its original battery.
The battery has now over 440 cycles and still gives me over 3hrs when fully charged.
Though, this is just about half the load it could hold when it was new (6hrs). Guess I'm facing a swap to be made soon, but since I'm not using this MBpro for traveling, I can wait a little longer.

Bottom line, 3 years, >440 cycles, not bad for a laptop battery. Mine also doesn't get extensively warm and it did not deform at all. Hope I have similar luck with the next battery.

once again this battery swelled so my pointer & clicker don't work!!

This MacBook Pro battery amazes me -- for all the wrong reasons.

I'm amazed that Apple -- in spite of the hundreds of negative reviews and very poor overall rating -- has not seen fit to improve this product. You'd think by now they'd have put more time into it. It's a very, very expensive battery and, yet, it's virtually worthless.

I'm also amazed a product this poor got past Apple QC. It should never have been released in the first place.

I'm about ready to obtain my third battery for my MacBook Pro. The first one had to be replaced, and was covered under warranty. The second one hasn't fared any better. It dies in less than an hour (and heats up like a mama if I use it without a cooling device under it). Now, I need a third battery, which means I'll have to buy this one. At $129, this is a major purchase. But, then again, most of Apple's products are outrageously expensive.

If there was a way NOT to use this battery, I would. But what good is a laptop that I can't use apart from the power chord?