Reviews for Rechargeable Battery - 15-inch MacBook Pro

Like others here, I too had a battery swell and expand. It was less than a year old and a replacement for a battery that stopped holding a charge. Maybe an aftermarket battery is a solution. Took my bad battery to the apple store and was told, after waiting 15 minutes for an appointment, that they could solve my problem by selling me another battery. I never had these problems with my Toshiba laptops.

38 of 38 people found this useful

These batteries are the worst I have ever used! I am ordering my third battery today, last one only lasted 6 months! if this one goes bad I may have to go back to a PC.

23 of 29 people found this useful

I got my new battery 2 months ago and now is pretty much garbage, so why you guys don't put more attention to make better batteries? the other brands just work great !!!

33 of 35 people found this useful

I have to buy another battery once again. This will be my fourth battery in 4 years. These things are just horrible!!!

20 of 24 people found this useful

This battery is unacceptable by any standard, especially Apple's. My wife's (older) Macbook has just as many cycles on it and her battery still lasts at least 2 hours on a charge. I would be luckily if I got 15 minutes. I essentially have to keep my computer plugged in if I ever actually want to use it. Needless to say, I would not buy a new one. Looking at 3rd party options now.

15 of 17 people found this useful

I am on my fourth battery in four years. Fortunately three of those batteries were covered by AppleCare.

Although I often use the notebook with the power adapter plugged in, I do drain the battery at least once a month as recommended by Apple to maintain a healthy battery. What happened most recently is the battery drained completely and now fails to accept a charge. My overall experience is that this battery design and/or the charging system is rubbish.

I've found that I can get the battery cheaper by going to the Genius Bar in an Apple Store. This saved me about 30%.

23 of 26 people found this useful

After only 44 charge cycles my recently replaced MBP battery needs replacing again. Not impressed.

22 of 25 people found this useful

This is the 3rd time I'm ordering a new one of these. All the other ones stopped charging in a matter of months, with very little use (when using plugged in, I would remove the battery, which would run at slow CPU speed, but at least save the ultra-picky battery.)

I went to the Apple store to complain about a possible logic board controller or charger problem, since my battery issues have been way too recurring. Nop, it's the battery again! This is the most overpriced, overrated battery in the market today. And all MacBook Pro users are stuck with it!

37 of 44 people found this useful

Like others, I had Apple Care and they replaced mine diligently 3 times with fresh one. The last one about a year and half, and it reached about 200 cycles and show "Service battery". The battery hold about 2-3 hours, now it reaches 260 cycles and no longer able to recharge, with capacity only about 1900mah. Out of warranty and I doubt that Apple would replace this time since the new one would be the same S... and I'm afraid to buy new one, they are definitely share the same trait.
Someone needs to bring this to class lawsuit for this type of problem.

19 of 22 people found this useful

I purchased my first mac in 2007, a 15" macbook pro. The computer itself has worked fine but the battery for it is a piece of junk. It's been replaced 3 times under applecare for a total of 4, count 'em 4 defective batteries. The last time they had me bring the computer in for repairs but it didn't change anything. Every time when the battery reaches about 100-150 charge cycles the runtime drops to less than half and usually the computer randomly dies when it's supposed to have 15-20 min left. Now my applecare is expired and I have a laptop I cant run on battery for more than 1.5 hours.

48 of 52 people found this useful