http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2006/06/24/macbook-battery-dead en-us 40 "Nothing in life is worth doing if you have no life while doing it" Well, finally ran into my first problem with the new Macbook. My battery will only power a laptop for about 10 minutes before shutting down (actually it just turns off). Jeremy Hubert was nice enough to swap batteries with me and sure enough, within a few minutes, his laptop shut down as well. Hoping to get to the Apple Store here in Chicago to get a replacement. Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:13:45 -0700 urn:uuid:138cfc13-e008-4b5c-ab6d-e783fa449f87 Bob Silva http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2006/06/24/macbook-battery-dead Ruby on Rails macbook battery so I went to a nearby Apple Store yesterday (Saturday) AM and ended up being the first to see a Genius. He tried out one of their batteries, booted into single user mode, checked inventory and gave me a new battery. Took all of ten minutes. I was pleasantly surprised -- my invoice was $0. Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:05:43 -0800 urn:uuid:a668d098-a9b2-4814-8b83-9a840fe01c64 http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2006/06/24/macbook-battery-dead#comment-269 my battery just stopped being recognized this evening. just a black x on the battery indicator on the menu bar. this is a 1/11/06 vintage black macbook. kind of sad that its battery is already wasted. Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:17:58 -0800 urn:uuid:cab1fc21-9396-4e37-a6ec-1da01f2d9968 http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2006/06/24/macbook-battery-dead#comment-268 Similar problem to Westenbroek, with the Macbook battery draining to 0% whenever I shut it down below 35%. My experience with AppleCare was less helpful - they would not acknowledge a battery problem or provide a replacement, but insisted that I take the Macbook to an Apple Store. There, fortunately, a Genius Bar tech immediately provided a new battery. My recent experience with AppleCare techs (for this and for a problem Airport Extreme) has been excellent for diagnostic skills but poor for replacing obvious equipment problems. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:56:53 -0800 urn:uuid:5bad6aed-c963-49a9-8424-e435d2d9e679 http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2006/06/24/macbook-battery-dead#comment-263 That battery experience is common. Mine was swollen when it wouldn't hold charge any longer... such is life :L Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:54:18 -0700 urn:uuid:fb51a891-4a1a-4856-bdee-05106f66932a http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2006/06/24/macbook-battery-dead#comment-42 well...finally (and hoping your problem is solved) I ran into this page. My nem macbook has a similar problem. The battery runs fine until I put it to sleep or Shut the mac Down. When turning my mac back on again the battery is totally drained. it actually happened once when i was using without the power adaptor (it went on sleep mode and wouldt wake until i put the powercord back in. Apple is sending me a new battery hopfully ending this agony. 15th august moving to the philippines for 2 years. it'll better work. Good luck, Friso Westenbroek Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:22:48 -0700 urn:uuid:31379e3e-f395-4ca3-b3db-ff6610a18649 http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2006/06/24/macbook-battery-dead#comment-25 Called Apple today and even though I'm out of my 90-day phone support time-frame, the guy was cool enough to go ahead and cross-ship a new battery. Hope this one works out better, hated having to plugin everywhere at RailsConf. Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:58:17 -0700 urn:uuid:624362fb-5d4c-4762-baa0-43a9cd77ed2a http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2006/06/24/macbook-battery-dead#comment-10 Sorry to hear that. The apple store is just about as far away from the conference as possible. Take the blue line downtown and get a cab. It'll be a several hour turnaround. Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:31:53 -0700 urn:uuid:682ade3a-9bac-4ed6-897c-a91a9754ce84 http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2006/06/24/macbook-battery-dead#comment-7