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

I love all my Apple gear (MacBook, iPod, iPhone, Airport Extreme, etc) except the battery in my MacBook. Like some others in this column, I am receiving my 3rd battery in 10 months. So far Apple is standing by their product (Service and Support have been the absolute best of any computer company on the planet), but it remains really inconvenient to have a battery just DIE after 4 months of use. I almost want to buy a spare battery, but I'm afraid to. It's reliability would probably be just as questionable. Then if they figure out what the problem is and fix it, I'd be stuck with 2 bad batteries. I wouldn't mind getting a spare if they weren't so undependable. Like I said, I love all my Apple gear and have plans to transition my office network to Apple exclusively, but these MacBook batteries are........ just plain junk.

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.

...or you'll be buying a new battery. Seriously, it will kill your battery if you're gone for more than a few days and it runs dead. Mine was fine until I went away for ten days with my unplugged computer on sleep mode, and now it's shot. Forums out there have others complaining about the same issue. This is the Achilles heel of the Macbook!

Macbook is great, love it. Battery is miserable. My perfectly good and hardly used 13 month old battery died a couple weeks out of warranty. Never had a laptop battery suddenly die before. Remember when batteries just faded away? Not any more, now we have electronics in there so it can break before it wears out.

Apple told me that the battery is considered a consumable. Only, you know what, it didn't consume, it just plain broke. Consumable is like no ink left or brake pads wearing out, not when it instantly stops working.

That, Mr. Apple, is not consumable, it is broke.

I purchased this battery a little over 6 months ago, it now holds a charge for at best 1 hour. I have done everything I was suppose to as far as calibration, but the quality of this replacement battery is extremely substandard for Apple. The battery also runs extremely hot, so beware if your one who likes to sit with your computer directly on your lap.

I bought a second battery as my original one was starting to become less efficient at holding a charge. Now after only a year or two this second one has given up the ghost. It holds about 30 minutes of charge, tops.

My original battery that I stored according to instructions does not even charge anynore.
At the price of this battery pack and its durability I´ll be looking somewhere else.

I know rechargeable batteries do not live forever, but these ones wear down _way_ to fast.
I also work on a Lenovo T400 and that battery is still doing more or less OK after 4 years of daily 8+ hour use.

The Mackbook is a lovely machine, unfortunately its batery pack does not do it justice.

My THIRD macbook battery just died.
Replacement after replacement. Why don't they do them properly? I've never had problems with the ibook batteries.

I just LOVE the big X.

Had to get rid of my second battery because it was expanding, which was actually a replacement for the original which also expanded. Hesitant to spend $160 on another battery for it just to expand in another 6 months.

I can't believe Apple has not addressed this?

My battery just died out of the blue and refuses to charge....what a disappointment!
Now I have to shell out another $129 plus dollars? Not fair or right!
I have older macs that are still alive and kicking!

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