MacBook Pro Battery Problem

However, the last couple of weeks I’ve been using it on battery only here and a problem surfaced. When the battery indicator goes down to around 40 minutes left the machine shuts down. No warning at all whatsoever.

The OS X System Profiler and Coconut Battery showed me a cycle count of 15. That translates into not-a-whole-lot for 9 months of use! Remembering some business about an Apple battery recall last year I thought my battery qualified for that but the serial didn’t match apart from the first A1175. My battery’s serial ends with “TY4B”.

Last night when I went to sleep the battery indicator said 100% charged. Currently and for the last couple of hours it has been at 97%.

So I called Apple support and a new battery is now on its way with UPS. Should be here in 10 days or so.

UPDATE 2008/sep/15:

The replacement battery had the same symptoms and after 35 cycles its capacity was roughly 1000 mAh. Lame. Called Apple support and they wouldn’t do a fucking thing because the MacBook Pro was over two years old. Lame.

Also in the timespan since the replacement the logic board also keeled over and had to be replaced. Lame.

Lesson learned:

Apple hardware sucks and is of seriously low quality. I take extremely good care of my laptops and I’ve never had problems before I bought a MacBook. Infact, the MacBook is the one I’ve carried around the least.