Long story short: My MBP battery died - will it be exchanged by warranty or is it a type of recall?
Short story long:
Hey, guys. I've been reading these forums for a long time because I have been interested in the Mac for over four years since I bought my iPod. I love Apple very much though I have only owned one product. However, when I finally got enough money to buy a laptop, I went with the MBP.
I soon received it opening everything carefully. I turned it on and was amazed by everything, but the first thing I wanted to do was collaborate my battery a couple of times so that's what I did.
Well, at first my battery life was awesome. coconutBattery said it was above the range (which I know can't be true). It was 5570/5000mAh.
Well, I was glad with that so I started to carry around my MBP every once in a while. A week of carrying it around, my battery life jumped from 100% to 77%. I was puzzled and decided to look around on the forums to see what's up. Well, I couldn't find anything so I just went along charging it up. It went from 77% to 98%.
Every day it did something weird like this and I wasn't sure why. It finally averaged to about 85% with 6 load cycles (I'm not sure if that's good or bad seeing as how this is my first laptop).
A few weeks later, I decided to burn my first DVD. I was sitting on my bed and I decided to get up. Well, I accidentally stood on the power chord causing it to unplug and as soon as that unplugged, my laptop shut off. I was puzzled. I tried to turn it back on, and the little white light to unlatch the laptop would turn on then immediately shut off. So I decided to plug it back up again and it worked. My battery life was at 1%. I thought it was the processor being too hot so I waited for it to cool down to unplug it - it worked! Well, two days later, my brother is playing Prey on my MBP, and I leave to see my girlfriend's musical recital. So I turn my computer on and it doesn't cut on at all - no white light or anything.
This was about five days ago. I was wondering since I've seen some of this going about in other parts of the forum if there is a recall for batteries or would I be able to get it exchanged through my warranty? Thanks.
Short story long:
Hey, guys. I've been reading these forums for a long time because I have been interested in the Mac for over four years since I bought my iPod. I love Apple very much though I have only owned one product. However, when I finally got enough money to buy a laptop, I went with the MBP.
I soon received it opening everything carefully. I turned it on and was amazed by everything, but the first thing I wanted to do was collaborate my battery a couple of times so that's what I did.
Well, at first my battery life was awesome. coconutBattery said it was above the range (which I know can't be true). It was 5570/5000mAh.
Well, I was glad with that so I started to carry around my MBP every once in a while. A week of carrying it around, my battery life jumped from 100% to 77%. I was puzzled and decided to look around on the forums to see what's up. Well, I couldn't find anything so I just went along charging it up. It went from 77% to 98%.
Every day it did something weird like this and I wasn't sure why. It finally averaged to about 85% with 6 load cycles (I'm not sure if that's good or bad seeing as how this is my first laptop).
A few weeks later, I decided to burn my first DVD. I was sitting on my bed and I decided to get up. Well, I accidentally stood on the power chord causing it to unplug and as soon as that unplugged, my laptop shut off. I was puzzled. I tried to turn it back on, and the little white light to unlatch the laptop would turn on then immediately shut off. So I decided to plug it back up again and it worked. My battery life was at 1%. I thought it was the processor being too hot so I waited for it to cool down to unplug it - it worked! Well, two days later, my brother is playing Prey on my MBP, and I leave to see my girlfriend's musical recital. So I turn my computer on and it doesn't cut on at all - no white light or anything.
This was about five days ago. I was wondering since I've seen some of this going about in other parts of the forum if there is a recall for batteries or would I be able to get it exchanged through my warranty? Thanks.
