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OK, I'm not 100% sure of that, but the timing is awfully suspect. Last night I downloaded and ran the 10.5.6 update and installed on my two-year-old 17" MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, previously running 10.5.5), and all seemed well. Then just now, roughly 24 hours later, I noticed the laptop wasn't lying flush on my desk, as if something were underneath. Odd... when I looked below, I found the battery was swollen to almost twice its thickness! I immediately shut down, waited a few minutes, then rebooted successfully with no battery installed.
The laptop felt unusually hot to the touch right before shut down, but now feels pretty much normal. Currently temps are:
HD: 110º
CPU A: 142º
GPU: 128º
GPU Heatsink: 131º
Heatsink A: 115º
Heatsink B: 113º
Mem Controller: 126º
Has anyone else seen battery or heat management issues as a result of this update?
Thanks,
Jeff
The same thing just barely happened to me 1/2 hour ago. Luckily I have a friend's laptop with me as well and have a spare battery at home (at work). After reading this I'm a little skeptical as to whether or not I should risk the spare battery. Could this really be an issue with the update? I thought perhaps it was just that my battery is over 2 years old and just at the end of its life. If this is a system issue from the update. I'm not quite sure when this happened, but I suspect it was this morning because I hadn't noticed the battery before. I had it sleeping closed in my bag on my way to work and when I took it out the fans were all running high (still closed/"sleeping"), the screen was on even though it was supposed to be sleeping (still closed) and the whole computer was really really hot to the touch. I immediately flipped it over, and saw the battery was all warped. I opened the computer and got a system error message telling me to hold down the power button. Did that and then took out the battery. Anyone know if this could really be an issue with the update or just an old battery at the end of its life? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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