Reviews for Rechargeable Battery - 15-inch MacBook Pro

Battery for 15" MacBook Pro 2008

My original battery gave up the ghost after a year but more importantly it appeared to happen after I'd installed Snow Leopard.

The replacement from this site is now running down v quickly as well but not as before which was almost immediately, but I'm only getting 3-4 hours from light web browsing/email usage.

If I knew about the battery in the 2008 MBP range I wouldn't have bought it.

Bought MB-Pro about fourteen(14) months ago since I used Macs at work (not notebooks) as a mechanical design engineer. Mac is the appropriate tool (at premium price, of course) for pro's, and it always performed multi-tasking for me better than PC's BUT certainly not better than SUNS Micro Sys (those who have used will agree w/ it).
Okay, Bottom line: MB-P a good computer, w/ a real bad or leaky gas tank, yes you got it....the battery. It has a really really really bad battery which didn't live up to its name (Sony made this for Mac), regardless...it is a bad battery.
Also, don't listen to any1 telling you that the battery doesn't get affected when its fully charged & you are running it on the power adapter, not true. It DOES get affected, even your system (Sys Profiler > Power) status tells you otherwise.
After all, there is no such a thing as perfect vehicle OR perfect computer.

How can I recommend this battery? I have had the battery that came with my Macbook Pro for only a year, and the battery is already giving me an alert that it needs to be replaced. The laptop does not hold nearly the charge it did when it was new, maybe 40% of its initial capacity. I do not subject the battery to inordinate stress, and I cycle it regularly. I use the laptop the way I imagine most users do, and as such, the performance of this battery has been unacceptable. This is simply not worth what Apple is charging for such an inferior product.

I've had my mac book pro for 4 years now & I'm about to be on my 4th. battery! After the 3rd. they should be a nominal fee, not $160+Can. every time. The one that's dying lasts a whopping 15-20min. tops on a full charge. Apple/sony have really dropped the ball on this one. I consider it a major drawback.
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I have my MBP for just about 3 years now, and it was reporting that I should replace my second batter now (for about 3 months).... the battery I currently use is just about 1 year old and I really took care of it this time, but regardless, it hardly holds 40 mins of charge anymore.....

Unfortunately, I have to buy it again 'coz I still love my MBP and it is doing great... I really wish I had choice with batteries here...

My MBP is three years old and this is the third battery I've had to buy, despite doing all the "battery maintenance" things you are supposed to do. They work fine, until they die, and then I have to buy a new one. I've taken the previous two in for service and the answer has been "yup, this battery is busted, sorry you need a new one." For the price, they should be better quality.

I am positive about the new internal battery life in new pros, but the 15" battery life is poor. after 69 cycles on my second battery I am on to my 3rd in 2 years. Hope there is more life in the 3rd time lucky battery...

I've had my Macbook pro since 2007 and am on my second battery! The current one was bought in December 2008 and I'm getting a "Service Battery" message already.

I use my Macbook Pro all the time, less then normal lately because most of the programs I use for school now, run on a PC. But when I first got my laptop, the battery ran for close to 6hrs when fully charged depending on what I was doing and had no problems with it.

The computer itself has not given me any problems and I have had it for slightly more then 1 1/2 yrs. Recently, with in the last few months, it has been giving me trouble.

The battery began to act weird, the time remaining would change constantly. It would go up and down. Instead of getting 3+hrs of full battery life like I know it should have, I got less then 2:30min. Just surfing the web would make it jump down to 1:15 min and it would jump back up to 3:15 min and quickly go back down to 30min.

Even if you have a warranty on your laptop, the warranty does not cover the battery. I had to buy a new one to replace the one that came with my computer. The battery is much heavier then my original laptop. You think they would improve the battery life when they improved the laptop. Maybe instead of changing technology every 6 months or so they should work on the battery.

I have an IPOD Nano 3rd Generation whose battery is still working perfectly and it is close to 3yrs old! I use it every day for long hours at a time. The battery is still just fine! If Apple's IPOD battery's can last for 3yrs, why can't their laptop batteries?

The batteries are WAY too expensive for the length of life that they provide, even with cycling the battery the performance and the overall life of them are disappointing. Apple makes a great computer, but a lousy battery.