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Macbook White: High-quality/capacity battery?

alexjholland

alexjholland

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Hey, I've got an early 2009 White Macbook.

With a new Seagate Momentus XT 750Gb/8Gb SSD Hybrid drive, 4Gb RAM and Lion installed it's really quite a decent machine now!

A combination of being several years old and having a 7200rpm HD means my battery isn't super-long lasting.. And it would be handy to have a second anyway.

£108 on the Apple website seems silly; and the internet is littered with cheap knockoffs.

Are there any high-quality batteries with a minimum of the same capacity as the official Apple battery, if not higher - or somewhere that does the genuine article (to ship to the UK) at a great price?
 
I wouldn't trust or recommend any non-Apple battery, due to the number of problems reported with "knockoff" batteries. Also, there is no assurance that knockoff batteries have the same charging technology that Apple uses, involving the battery, the MagSafe adapter and the Mac's logic board.

Battery Replacement
Replacing the built-in battery in your MacBook Pro
Replacing the Battery in your MacBook Air
Intel-based Apple Portables: How to replace or service a built-in battery

This should answer most, if not all, of your battery questions:
 
alexjholland said:
Hey, it's the easily-replaceable white Macbook battery I'm after.
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I know. Read the first link.
alexjholland said:
Also, I could do with a second power-charger too - which seem to also have many knockoffs online!
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Apple hasn't licensed the MagSafe adapter technology to anyone else. Buying cheap knockoffs may or may not damage your MacBook. I wouldn't advise buying anything but Apple batteries and adapters.
 
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£100+ for a battery is pretty extortionate.. I'd be happier paying that if - in the three-five years since this battery was introduced - a higher capacity version had been introduced instead..

But I'm paying an inflated price by today's standards, for a product that is a capacity of several years ago.
 
alexjholland said:
£100+ for a battery is pretty extortionate.. I'd be happier paying that if - in the three-five years since this battery was introduced - a higher capacity version had been introduced instead..

But I'm paying an inflated price by today's standards, for a product that is a capacity of several years ago.
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Buy whatever you like. I've given my best recommendation. Take it or leave it.
 
I'm also looking for a battery for my '09 aluminum MB and yeah.. prices for a fresh battery are pretty high considering it has the same capacity/design as it did 3 years ago.
 
I agree that even a new battery from Apple has the same capacity as a new batter did 5 years ago.

However, my 2007 MacBook can get 6+ hours on a charge. That's with my normal usage (no wifi, no cd/dvd, at 1/2 brightness).

So has battery capacity really increased that much?
 
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