How many cycles should my battery have? If it dies with less can I contact someone about it?

Just curious. My Macbok Pro battery has stopped charging all together. It reads that it has cycled 203 times. Is this normal for these many? Trying to find a way to ask Apple but I can't even figure out which number I call for a simple question like this. Any help would be awesome!

find your model here and see what its maxumum cycle count is: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1519.  And if your battery is over one year old, it is out of warranty and you will have to buy a new one, regardless of how many cycles are on it.

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