Posted on 07/01/2009 11:36:55 AM PDT by Blue Highway
Difference is your Apple with proprietary battery will cost $3000. I bought my Compaq for under $450 after rebates and promo codes in May of 2007. A replacement battery for mine will cost $130 from Compaq and considerably less from import aftermarket companies that sell on Ebay which I am leery to trust. I am biding my time for the next gen Windows 7 laptops to finally upgrade.
A laptop whose battery won't hold a charge is a boat anchor, according to you. Or does that only apply if it's from Apple?
ADS = Apple Derangement Syndrome
Stick with Gatesys. We don’t need the hacker target on our backs.
I knew you were going to equate Dell and HP having different non interchangeable batteries as meaning proprietary. I am saying at least they can be user replaceable. Once your Macbook battery craps out what are YOU going to do? Go to the iDiot Bar at the Apple Store and hand over your Macbook for them and walk away without a laptop for 2-3 weeks? Nice...
$2499 for the most expensive Macbook Pro; $1199 for the least expensive.
I bought my Compaq for under $450 after rebates and promo codes in May of 2007. A replacement battery for mine will cost $130 from Compaq
So Compaq's battery costs the same amount as Apple's, despite the fact that the laptop is a lot cheaper. The Mac with a dead battery is a "boat anchor," but the Compaq that needs a new battery at 1/3 its purchase price isn't?
If a replacement Apple battery an OEM Apple replacement is actually only $119 I will be honestly impressed. Show me a link please.
Sounds like a balancing charger, As used in RC for quite some time, with the same batteries.
Can I call my balancing charger “smart” now, or does it make the batteries “smart”?
Actually I am a little pissed my Compaq battery no longer charges. It seemed to happen a little over a year of use too. I was desperately hoping the latest battery recall from Compaq listed the battery in my laptop but it didn’t. Still pissed though at Compaq, so please don’t call me a Bill Gates lover or Compaq or PC fanboy.
You claimed the Apple is a boat anchor if it has a non-functioning battery. You then said your Compaq has a non-functioning battery.
Let's go through this mathematically:
A=boat anchor
B=computer with non-functioning battery
IF
A=B and Compaq=B
THEN
Compaq=A
From what I heard it boils down to two things:
1. Square batteries so there isn’t any wasted space as is normal when they chain a bunch of cylindrical batteries together to make the larger battery.
2. Intelligent power management and recharge software. A major factor in battery life is how it’s used and how it’s recharged.
And it is removable. Doing so violates the warranty, but then Apple will be replacing the battery for free if your laptop is still under warranty. Thus you’re not violating a warranty if you need to replace it yourself.
Considering the size and weight of the new MacBook Pro a boat small enough for it to anchor would be too small for use.
:-)
“it can be recharged up to 1000 times — nearly three times the lifespan of typical notebook batteries”
Wrong. I have never seen a notebook battery last only a year. I have a notebook battery going on 5 years. The one I am using to type this is 3 years.
Ummm..., rubber-ducky-sized..., right? :-)
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
WRONG! If my Compaq cost me $3000 and the computer battery died within 2 years then yes I would call it a boat anchor even if it was still usable on AC power. Do we know yet if this “Smart IC processor monitored Li-poly battery” of the Macbook Pro will allow you to run exclusively off ac power only once the internal non-removable battery dies?
Typo. It's $129, not $119, and $179 for the 17". http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/service/battery/
Sounds like you got a competent Mac GENIUS!!! Their knowledge is astounding. Again, as I have said since they started boasting this ridiculous and smug moniker, there is NOTHING “genius” about these liberal dufuses.
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