Reviews for Rechargeable Battery - 15-inch MacBook Pro (aluminum)

The MacBook Pro batteries are atrocious! I shelled out over $2000 for my MacBook Pro in 2009. I should not have to shell out another $130 for a battery in a years time. Or ever for that matter.

The original was good for 4 years and the new one has already gone dead after 8 months... $139. for 8 months life is terrible. I can see why they don't provide a warranty...

I own 2 Acer laptops (I3) bought each at $599. They are being heavily used by my kids on daily basis but its battery still work like it is advertised.

But sadly, i have paid more than $2000 for this Mac Book Pro (i7), and used almost 70% of what my kids used the laptops. And all of sudden it stopped charging the battery and the OS says it need to be replaced. If we have to pay almost 4 times the prices for getting this junk then why do we need a Mac? Isn’t that to make the Apple's top officials wallet lot bigger?

The fact is that my i3 laptops are way faster than this i7 mac book pro, it takes forever to boot and/or open any app, even after upgrading the memory to 8GB. They're giving you the 5400rpm hard drive. If Apple is putting all the cheapest hardware in the system and making the external case look pretty then what is the point of Apple? Attract the customers based on look and not by the performance? PC works lot better than this Mac these days... Apple messed up in the Mac as well as in iPhones... Why in the world you go backward Apple because we trust in you too much?

Common Apple, I think you can do lot better to make your valuable customers satisfied if not happy. Put some good parts in your products that are reliable...

I have a MB early 2008 and still the first battery what still last 2 hour, i had a system check up last week every think on my MB still work good no hardware problems at all.
The technician told me if i want i could change the battery, but not really necessary. as i work most from home.
Overall after 5 years using my MB daily without any problems....what you want me to say?
thats the facts will never go back to PC (with PC i had to change computers every 2 years)

thanks

Bought my 15-inch (Aluminum) MacBook Pro in April 2011 and now I am getting a warning to completely replace my battery in November 2012. Average usage is about 4 to 6 hours, 3 to 4 days per week. I never got the number of hours that the battery was suppose to operate on with a single charge. Come-on APPLE you can do better than that, if you claim that your product can perform at a certain level (7 hours on a signal charge) that is what I expect, not 4 hours. Life expectancy for your batteries is never clearly stated, please start developing a 10 hour, 2 year use no matter how much you use your MacBook Pro. Remember companies like Samsung want to out sale, out develop, and out perform you, APPLE. Look what they did with there Smartphones!

I'm on my third battery now. The first one made it 6 months before expanding and making it near impossible to remove rear cover of my macbook pro. Second one made it almost a year before doing the same. Im now on my third battery and has expanded so badly that I had to remove it in order for my trackpad to click. The battery was putting so much pressure against the trackpad that it rendered it inoperable.

And here I go again, buying another battery because its the only choice :(

My original battery went after 2 years & lucky for me I was still under warranty. Not so lucky the second time around. The second battery completely died after 10 months. Great laptop but NOT so great battery! With all the battery issues reported you would think Apple would do something about it!

i've had my macbook pro since mid 2009, and now three years later i'm getting a warning that i have to change my battery soon.
In the beginning i remember that it last up to six (maybe seven) hours, at least through the first two lord of the rings movies...
anyways now-a-days it only lasts for two-three hours which i think is not that bad considering that i'm on my 1370 cycle, and that's no joke.
so 5 STARS from me!

Right after 1 year warranty this thing decided to give me the "Service battery" warning just after 140 cycles, but apple says 1000 haa! Now it holds for about 3 hrs of normal work... and why does it always go right after warranty????

Late 2008 15in MBP
Original battery now bulging 3.5 years later, but track-pad still functional, base is not flush
407 cycles, 94% health, 94% charge
Getting roughly 3 hours on battery with active browser but no streams

Rarely turned off and usually in sleep mode when not in use. Mostly plugged into outlet.