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

I have been exceedingly frustrated with Apple and their inability to produce a good battery. It is even more frustrating how difficult and expensive it is for me, a customer, to replace a poorly made battery. I ordered another battery and will not see it for several months, AFTER paying extra to get it here in two days! It is my understanding that a good business produces all quality products and owns up to any mistakes, taking care of their customers. Apple, I feel like I might be done with your products after my next battery dies (which it will).

30 of 33 people found this useful

I've seen a lot of reviews about this battery that sound like the experience I had so I'll add my $0.02. I've had my MBP for 16 months (16-18 seems to be the range of life for this battery.) The worst part about it is, all of my local Apple stores don't carry this model (or they're all sold out because I'm not the only one???) If I had known this battery would last me 16 months, I would be using something else. This sounds like a flaw in design or manufacturing that Apple should make right. We'll see if they do something about it, but I'm not holding my breath.

38 of 41 people found this useful

Original Battery lost charge capacity pretty fast and was totally done after just 18 month.
Now my brand new original Apple Battery is discharged before a 90 min movie is over.
It's giving me a bit over a hour. The charging capacity goes down very fast, from 4800mAh to 4600mAh after just 3 charging cycles.
Weak for $129, only the price shows its Apple, not the performance.

28 of 28 people found this useful

Well, 14 months and battery is dead. Computer only used 10 times per month at most. Not very happy right now. Off to the Genius Bar today.

19 of 21 people found this useful

I got the MBP Aluminun battery for my wife a couple of months ago. Apple advertises 8-9 hrs, She barely gets 3 hrs on her Mac. She does mostly Word and Web. She does not do graphically intense applications on it unplugged. The main reason for this purchase was the long battery life, so far. could not even go 3 hrs without it needing to be recharged. My old Acer laptop (18.4) runs longer....My appreciation of Apple quality has diminished somewhat. I would recommend, unless necessary, to use plugged in always.

11 of 11 people found this useful

Very Disappointed!
Now I understand why the warranty on the battery is one year.
It started giving problems about 1 year and 2 months after I bought my Mac Book Pro.
When it reached 1 year and 6 months I noticed the icon, "Service Battery".
I took it to the store, they ran the Apple Diagnostic toolkit and it showed that it is a battery defect.

Then the good news. Even thou it is a defect I have to buy a new one since the warranty is just one year, but the new battery has a 2 year warranty.

I wonder why the new one has 2 years and the one that came with the laptop had just 1 year.

You take your conclusions.

33 of 33 people found this useful

The battery called it quits just outside (a month or two) of my 1yr hardware warranty. Yes, I am very frustrated as to the performance of this battery. I properly maintained the battery and monitored its health. (this is not my first hardware failure with apple - seems to be frequent - hoping this changes).

Phone support as always tries their best, but often is bound by policy. It really is disappointing to see when things are defective (clearly) that Apple does not empower them to make things right (properly).

I purchased a new battery either way, as I need a functioning portable computer.

All the previous "good" reviews seem to be people that are talking about different batteries/hardware then the unibodies. These batteries will last on average 'just past' their warranty period (go figure?!?!)

Apples new 'built-in' battery might be a response to this issue, but we'll never know.

24 of 25 people found this useful

I've had my macbook pro for 16 months, and The battery has also failed to preform. On a good day I can get 3 hours out of it.

18 of 23 people found this useful

....i have 23% health ....i thought this was going to be a great purchase when i first got it .. now at this rate ill be buying a new battery every year ... or be tethered to a wall for the rest of my life.... thanks a lot apple for this great battery.

12 of 13 people found this useful

I have gotten a MacBook Pro that was released late August of 2008 and so far, the battery of it was fine. At first it did last long as 7 or 8 hrs... and that's just surfing the internet with music playing. My screen is dimmed to the lowest setting and when it's dark and they lit up very brightly once another light source is turned on and I had to lower its brightness back down to 1 notch. Only time I end up draining the battery easily is when I play a game like TheSims3, that takes a lot of power to play even Spore does that too. WoW, it's fine. This MacBook Pro that I gotten was from a school that bought the MacBook Pros because the students are require to have one if in graphic design or something else. Other degrees uses windows laptops. I was impressed that this lasts much longer than a windows laptop since most at the time only stay on up to 2.5 hrs to 3hrs max. Now I'm not sure, I really do want to keep this one alive its just that once in awhile, with 24 or 27% of life is left as it discharges, it just dies instantly. It's either the battery isnt well or its the firmware of the hardware in the macbook pro. I check on my battery's life by using an app called coconutbattery. designed for macbooks and macbook pros to give you the life of your battery and stuff. It's just odd that it suddenly shuts itself off with 54 mins left of battery run before it needs to be charged again. It doesn't happened often just once in every 3 or 5 months it does that. Honestly I really like my macbook pro and I grew up with apple computers until 7th grade when I was force to use windows which still not fond of. OS of the mac sure has changed since I used apple ii as a kid. Anyhow, it still runs long and strong for me to this day. ^__^

7 of 13 people found this useful