Reviews for Rechargeable Battery - 15-inch MacBook Pro

went through 5 of these during my 3 year apple care! now my apple care is up and my battery is dead!!!

Who the heck cares if you have an amazing product if there is no decent battery to make running the sucker possible?! A brand new battery, at $129.00 smackeroos, should last more than a few months! I don't have tons of money to toss around at random and spent an awful lot of time saving up for my dream laptop. The laptop works great-but only as a desktop. After battery #2, I give up and flat out cannot afford more batteries for this computer. This battery is not up to the standards I expect from a Mac. I sincerely hope that Apple will release an updated battery or updated software to make it work.

Since decembre 2006, I'm already at my 4th battery. And this is the state of this last one as reported by the system profiler:

Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh): 2012
Fully charged: No
Charging: No
Full charge capacity (mAh): 2508
Health Information:
Cycle count: 417
Condition: Replace Now
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA): -2035
Voltage (mV): 11315


"Replace Now" again....what a bad product..

This should have been recalled. I'm on my third one. They don't last more than a couple months. I fully drain and charge at least a couple times a month and I hardly run on just battery alone, but they just don't work. I don't really know what the point of writing a review is, because there is no other choice of battery to buy. Love all mac product, but these batteries should've been scrapped in the beginning. I give this 0 stars, but in order to post this they make you click at least 1 star.

I had bought a replacement battery after my first one just started to lose power suddenly without going into sleep mode and after about a year a few months (just out of warranty of course) the same thing happened. These batteries seem to die fast.

Second battery here, same as first, useless after a few months. This new battery bulged so much it does not physically fit in my laptop. I spent a lot of time with Apple customer support on this and always get the same answer: "The bulge is a security feature, we advise you to buy a new battery". He he, funny. Sure I want to get burned a 3rd time...

Apple, you consistently get one star review from real users on this because we cannot give it a 0. Fix your defective products.

dissapointed with apple's products life, ... and i very much like them, but the fact that it seems that they're made to last only 3 years, and just after passing that 3 years barrier they start to fail in every possible way is quite disappointing. the charger stopped doing its job just 2 weeks ago and i had to buy a new one, and not even a week after, the battery is dying! and is not like they're cheap to replace....
it makes me think if i'd buy a new macbook pro when i replace this one or get an equally powerful computer for half the price... :(

I'm on day 100 of this battery I bought at an apple store in Jan 2011. It's already at 74% health after 75 cycles. (they claim 300 cycles before it's at 80%) It is also already shutting off the computer with no warning when it gets to 20% charge. What a joke.

They start losing most of their charge for us after 3 months. We definitely don't see this with our PC laptops.

I have had 2 replacements so far. Now my 3rd battery won't hold a charge past 20-30 min. max. I calibrated etc. no luck. Now, my Apple Care is expired, so I must pay for it on my own. I think when you purchase a laptop the battery should last at least 2-3 years. Replacing it every year is awful and costly. Apple should fix this. I would much rather spend my money on a new computer vs a new battery every 11 or 12 months. System says Battery Condition: Check Battery and said yesterday my capacity was 4000+, today capacity is 3000+. I don't get warnings that the battery is about to die, just a complete shut off.