Thanks to Blue Highway for the post... in spite of his FUD rant.
Macbook battery Ping!
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Thanks to Blue Highway for the post... in spite of his FUD rant.
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Your welcome Swordmaker. I threw in the rant for free! ;-)
This is TYPICAL Apple with its proprietary BS components. Who wants to bet these things fail after a little more than a year (just like iPods) and then you have to not only buy a new battery but PAY Apple to put it in since you have to send the whole thing to Apple to get it installed!
I’m also skeptical of the battery life claims. Known Apple shill Walt Mossberg of the WSJ said they both lasted more than five hours for him, yet he admitted that all his “test” consisted of was cranking the screen to 100% brightness and playing music. Why didn’t he play video or use memory hog programs for an extended period of time? I’ll bet they don’t break three hours playing full-screen movies.
I would like to ask anyone on here a question. I have a Macbook Pro that is 15 months old. This past weekend my wife was running it off of battery and it just quit abruptly. She tried to boot it up again and it would flash a grey screen then go dead again.
So she assumed she had it on longer than she thought and brought it home and charged it. I took it off the charger and was surfing the net for about two hours and it died again. So I plugged it in and turned it on and it was charging with about 57% battery. I unplugged it and within a minute it died again.
So I charged it back up over night. In the morning it did a repeat of the night before. Dead at about 56% on the battery. So I ran it off of the plug until I was done, then shut if off and let it charge.
I take it in to the Apple store on Monday and they plug something that looked like an Ipod into a USB port and check the battery and it shows good. So the tech says it must be hardware. They ran a 24 hour diagnostic on it and say the computer is in top shape and that it has to be software.
Now I’m not a Mac tech and I don’t know everything about electronics, but this sounds like a bad battery to me. If they check it when it is near full charge, would it not show as good even if it had a bad cell?
Anyone have a clue what could be causing this?
Thanks