Category: Apple

The BBC is covering this story today about reports of battery problems with the MacBook and MacBook Pros. And seems like Apple has fully confirmed the issue.

Details of “swollen batteries” sounds a bit scary. I’ll be going home to check mine out for signs of swollenness : )

Identifying an affected battery

Affected batteries will have one or more of the following symptoms:

* Battery is not recognized causing an “X” to appear in the battery icon in the Finder menu bar.

* Battery will not charge when computer is plugged into AC power.

* Battery exhibits low charge capacity/runtime when using a fully charged battery with a battery cycle count (as shown in System Profiler) of less than 300.

* Battery pack is visibly deformed.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 30th, 2007 at 11:40 am