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

I have two batteries for my black Macbook, and they both work fine. I've left mine dead for a few days, charged up just fine and last as long as advertised.

My black MacBook battery just died out of the blue. Luckily I was still a couple weeks under the 1 year warranty deadline and had the battery replaced at a local Apple retailer.

I think there's a problem Apple needs to address with the battery maker. I have read too many similar "dead MacBook battery" and "it won't charge" user reviews and comments in various forums.

I have had 2 other Apple laptops and never had a battery failure like this. My dual USB 800MHz ibook still has its original battery and it works fine.

Rest assured I have put a "Test MacBook battery" appointment in iCal for next November 7th 2009. 30 days before the new warranty expires.

I got my macbook about a year ago in december and the battery wore off by the time it was march and throughout december it had been working fine and januray and feburay the power would just go faster and faster, I took really good care of it and then my charger broke and I couldn't afford to get a new one so i didn't use it for four months and finally i got the charger and every time the charger comes out my power turns off right away. That can be VERY upsetting because I could be doing something important and it doesn't save. Plus on top of the sucky battery, It's also very expensive so I haven't been able to get a new battery. I rate the battery very poorly. But, Apple has amazing stuff, so i think one of their only probelms is the battery, maybe they will consider making it cheaper.

I got my mac nice a new with a warranty. I used it very carefully and one day i ran the battery down and didn't charge for a week. I got a new battery under apple care and it did it again. This time not under warranty. Apple needs to make a hardware fix on the battery for their computers where you can force power to the battery or make an adaptor to charge it by cable or some other way. I have to say it's really bad that they leave that. I love apple but i really don't like when a notebook needs to be plugged in to work all the time.

Battery died suddently without warning. Could not hold a charge and I had to give a seminar. Bad news.

I've been a lifelong Apple fan, and still enjoy their fine computers, BUT their exclusive expensive replacements for battery and power supply for macbooks is just extortion. I've properly maintained my battery, following apple's directions to the letter, but then it drops dead and the expensive applecare doesn't cover batteries!?! The real cost of more affordable computer products from apple is that the accessories are designed to fail and cost a mint to replace. My $1,099 macboook has already cost $1,259.

My Macbook Battery died about a year after I got the machine. I let the battery completely discharge (including the reserve charge). Be careful with these batteries and make sure you don't completely discharge this battery. Turn off your machine and plug it in if you're not going to be using it for a while. Any battery will lose charge overtime. If you leave the batter with only a little charge, it can lose what it has left. On the plus side, it looks nice. :-)

I've been buying mac products for years and I have recently traded in my power book for a 2.16ghz mac bool. I've had it for over a year ad have had absolutely NO problems with it. My health is at 100% and it stills holds a charge (all apps closed) for about 6:30 hours with the screen on full brightness. I think the problem people have is that they never let their batteries run down. If you leave your mac plugged into the charger 24/7 then I have a question and a comment. #1, why didn't you buy a desktop?! #2, this hurts your battery and decreases it's lifetime and amount of charge. You need to let it run down to reserve battery every once in a while so it will remember what a full charge is.

How much money is Apple making from replacement batteries? Are they compensating for the losses because they finally got around to making a decent power supply (Magsafe) and we don't have to keep replacing those? My battery was fine for about 4 months, but now I can't trust it to endure more than 45 minutes.

If I could I'd give it less than 1 star because it's not fair to the consumer when we are not informed that it won't be covered by the $300-plus warranty.

that the battery on my brand new macbook also died within 5 months of me buying the laptop. Now, I calibrated the thing just like the manual said, so no excuse there. And like everyone else, my battery died with no warning and no excuse. I think that when a company has this many people have the same complaint about a product, they should replace it or do a recall. And even if they don't read the reviews here, they know about it, as I know others have complained. I love my macbook, but it's battery is junk. Please, Apple, we would all appreciate some kind of response to this problem.