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Battery dies without warning ~10-17%

thadoggfather

thadoggfather

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Oct 1, 2007
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It's happened twice now. I think I need a battery replacement what do you think?

I have 231 charges on here, 83% health, and had the penryn machine for about 14 months now.

I still have apple care on it but this is getting annoying. What if i'm doing valuable work and my computer just shuts off?
 
I think I have fairly recently, but even now, I can't because it cuts out before it lets me :(
 
I had something like this, and the genius checked it and told me it was defective, so i got a new battery. Btw, it was about 1 year old and 80% health.
 
thadoggfather said:
It's happened twice now. I think I need a battery replacement what do you think?

I have 231 charges on here, 83% health, and had the penryn machine for about 14 months now.

I still have apple care on it but this is getting annoying. What if i'm doing valuable work and my computer just shuts off?
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had the same situation about 2 weeks ago. apple will tell you it's a faulty battery. get a new one.
 
It depends on the test result: if it shows the hardware problem, you'll get a new one immediately.
 
Battery was bad, I got a replacement. the one I had before was SMB or something, the one I have now is Sony. Does it make any difference?
 
thadoggfather said:
Battery was bad, I got a replacement. the one I had before was SMB or something, the one I have now is Sony. Does it make any difference?
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Sony batteries have been known to blown up in the past.




... I kid. Can happen to any battery and is very rare. ;)
 
^ yeah i knew about the bad batch, but the problem has since corrected itself, no?

is there any difference in quality between sony and the other one I had?
 
thadoggfather said:
^ yeah i knew about the bad batch, but the problem has since corrected itself, no?

is there any difference in quality between sony and the other one I had?
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I have no idea, but I imagine Sony's name brand should lend a little bit of confidence. Either way, I doubt you'll ever notice any difference between two competing batteries except a few minutes of battery life.
 
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