Reviews for Rechargeable Battery - 17-inch MacBook Pro

First battery bulged after ~3.5 yrs. Second one, 5 yrs.

I'm here to purchase my 4th battery in three years. My enthusiasm for Apple's innovation is greatly tempered by the $600 drained from my wallet by this lousy battery.

Just ordered my third battery in three years. First one died after a year. Second one expanded over the period of a week - to the point where the battery's case split, exposing the individual cells inside the casing. I have never seen batteries fail like these.

Always have loved my macs but have had to replace this battery several times. at $130 a pop, it really strikes as gauging us. Man, gonna have to consider something else. Can't just keep afford to throw money at problems.

Battery bulged and now won't hold a charge. Again.

I am getting ready to get my third battery in 4 years! The first one not only bulged, but physically separated allowing me to see the insides. The second battery started to bulge after a about a year and this time is pushed the area around the track pad up and permanently bowed a section. Overall, I am very please with my MBP(and 4 other macs) but this issue is very bothersome. Apple. Please. Do better.

I have exactly the same problem, had my MBpro for 3yrs, and now the battery is bulging to such and extent that i cant use my trackpad button! this is clearly not what a battery is meant to do, and its not through misuse, it is clearly a design fault, and the fact that it happens with replacements too is so poor!

APPLE NEEDS TO SORT THIS OUT TO AVOID DISAFFECTING LOYAL USERS!

This is happening frequently. Apple should do something about this!

The battery on my 17-inch MacBook Pro just popped and bulged!

I'll have to get Apple to provide reasonable explanation and action.

It's horrendous.

I too had the battery explode on the G4 MacBook Pro. At first it was a small bump that stopped my trackpad from working. Then the complete pop. It does seem dangerous.

apple should replace the battery because of this defect!

november 5 2007

I was surprised to see so many others have had exactly the same problem I have
with my battery

a few weeks ago my macbook pro trackpad was starting to act funny the pad itself worked not too bad but the built in mouse part of it just didn't work I thought hmm maybe there's dust or something underneath it but the unit is pretty much sealed so that didn't seem too likely

I took out the battery and it seemed a bit inflated like canned food that has gone bad I tried the computer with just the power no battery and it worked great so I left it out

each time I tried to use the computer with the battery in it I couldn't use the mouse part of the trackpad so I left the battery out and to my surprise today about a week later the battery has expanded so much I can't even put it back into the computer

as I look straight on my battery with the big button in the middle and the five little lights on the right side the most expansion comes on the right side and the second most comes along the front below the button and five lights what gives? is this an example of built in obsolescence??

I bought my 17 inch macbookpro in the late summer of 2006 and it has worked well my partner bought hers in the summer of 2007 and I am assuming she will run into the same problems somewhere down the line that's not good news

I have never been impressed with macintosh batteries in terms of long life and good performance but I have never experienced anything as strange as this

I'm a university professor and do not abuse my computer it lays on a wooden desk most of the time so cooling should be no problem I would have thought that by now macintosh would have done something about improving the life of its batteries but instead it seems to have taken another direction entirely slow explosion

is this covered under warranty I sure hope so because I don't want to have to buy another battery for $160 and worry about it too coming apart at the seams

I love my mac and like my partner have always been a mac user even when the university would not support the mac platform because of the deals that dell could give them I fought and finally my university now also uses the mac program too

please restore our faith in the whole mac package certainly the battery is an important part of a laptop is it an air circulation problem within the unit a design problem I know that a mac could solve the design problem but not without a battery I would love to have a battery which performs well and which maintains power for many hours without being plugged in

get to work on the macbookpro and make those changes to it so that it works better meanwhile how about shipping me a new battery I only use a cellphone and don't want to waste my daytime minutes waiting to talk to the technical people