Reviews for Rechargeable Battery - 13-inch MacBook (White)

Its a great product but you need to know how to charge it. Its like any other thing that requires charging, if you over do it it messes it up. Just charge it fully and let in drain, but not completely, and while you use your laptop do not have it plugged in! thats why things get damaged!!

Apple has to pull up their socks on their battery issues concerning 1st generation macbook's. I understand there are limitations to charge duration, but the failure of the battery altogether is preposterous. No rechargable battery fails faster.

I have had my macbook for three years now and I have gone through three batteries. I do everything the experts say that you should do to prolong your battery life. I don’t even use my macbook that much. My friend has a macbook that is newer than mine and she is having the same problem. I'm very disappointed with Apple concerning this issue. With the cost of their computers you would think they would have better batteries. I could have paid for a new Dell with the amount of money I have spent on batteries for my macbook. Don’t get me wrong I like the macbook but I would prefer to get my money’s worth out of a product than have to deal with this issue each year.

If the battery is used as it should be, it works perfectly. It is when it is not used appropriately that the life of the battery is diminished. I have had my original battery for 3 years, it was not until this time that the battery needed to be changed. The average life of the battery is 300 cycle count. Currently mine is at 900 and it is only just starting to be decreased, that is, the battery only lasts for 2-2.5 hrs.

This battery is supposed to be at 80% health at the 300th cycle. I am on my 250th cycle, and the health is 44%. I can't remain unplugged for more than an hour at a time, if I'm lucky.

Its been 3.5 years now since I got this Mac. And the battery worked well until recently when it started sweling. It still works well but I can't find a reason for its newly acquired shape.

I think Apple should find out the cause and correct it to at least avoid such problems in future.

I've had laptops for years and this is the longest I've gone without replacing my battery. I have had consistently longer use time and, though it's fairly heavy and big, I wouldn't trade it for quality and battery life that I received. Apple just keeps getting it better and better.

My first battery lasted about a year before it wouldn't hold a charge, but I've had my current one for three years and I'm on 1040 charge cycles and 84%. That sound insane, but just two weeks ago I was still on 98%. I guess I'm finally headed towards a new battery again, but this one has served me amazingly well.

I have my original MacBook battery and it has gone through 581 cycles and is still at 99% health. I have noticed maybe only slight drops in battery life over the 3 years I have owned it. I don't know what the heck these people do to their batteries that only get a few hours after only owning it for a few years. My battery can last 5 hours if I turn of airport and turn the brightness down and only do small tasks (like not watching movies or games). It goes to show that with proper maintenance this battery will last a very long time. Just don't be an idiot, use it until it's dying, then plug it in, let it charge up and don't leave it plugged in all the time fully charged. Not that hard...