Is it worth buying another apple battery??
My MacBook Pro is on its second battery. NEITHER made it past about 50 cycles.... The current battery is about 18 months old, has 47 cycles and is giving 20 mins. THe apple store says it needs a new battery. Frankly at this point I am considering a third party battery since I am not impressed with the apple batteries. Does anyone have any feedback on apple batteries Vs third party batteries.
Thanks very much for any ideas...
Dave
I have had the same issues as you. My first battery was replaced by Apple after it just shut itself off after about 20 mins. It was a recall battery. However after only a year the battery they gave me had pretty much the same problem. This time Apple weren't so helpful and told me it wasn't covered and I had to buy a replacement. My current (third) battery is on 40 cycles and I only get 1:20 mins out of it.
I've owned this MBP since Nov 2006, in comparison my previous Powerbook which I owned from 2003 til 2006 only needed one replacement battery.
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Option
A. Is it to annoy the user, to frustrate them enough to go out there and buy another apple photo product?
Or
B. Is it to annoy the user, to frustrate them enough to commit suicide, to reduce population in the world?
Is there a third reason? Can someone help me, otherwise I'll have to go with option B.sunshinecowgill wrote:
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Unfortunately, it stopped working last month. I hadn't even been using it for half a year and it broke. There's something wrong with the hardware, apparently. I'd e-mailed customer support and they'd verified this for me, and said I could pay $40+ to get it fixed.
I'd jump on that offer if I'd trusted the company. A friend of mine had a different MP3 player from Creative, and it broke as well. And I've read complaints among the boards suggesting that people had had theirs fixed, and it broke again.
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Hi guys,
I can only leave my MacBook Pro unplugged for an hour maximum and it never seems to fully charge. It says on the Mac to service battery - which I guess means buy a new battery.
I have had my MacBook for over 5 years now and it does get used probably every day, if not every other. If I brought a new battery would it all work normally again or is it getting old and do I need a new one?
Also, my charger seems to be playing up a bit now as well. It's seems to be temperamental when I plug it in and takes to while to light up and charge. I've attached an image of the battery bit on my laptop as the lead seems to be fine - is this normal?
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Where can I buy original apple battery for 13" Mid 2010 MBP?
My battery life has decreased dramatically and I need a replacement battery. I don't want to go to an appe authorized service center to fix this problem. It's a relatively simple and cheap fix and apple authorised service center will ask for a lot of money.
Welcome to Apple Support Communities
A battery replacement at an Apple Store or reseller costs $129 + labour, which is quite similar to the cost of buying a battery in the Internet.
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PRO TIP apple.. I didn't have to give a credit card info so I could use my Android.. this is such headache to do a simple task.. and why do I get a prompt to put in my password every 2 screens.. it can't even remember that I ticked the check in REMEMBER MY INFO box.. lame apple glad I roll something else less bulky and cavemanish.. I know it won't get fixed..been here done this..If you want free apps without providing a credit card, just follow the steps in the article exactly, creating a new Apple ID in the process. You cannot use an existing Apple ID. As to the password issue, given how many people complain that they purchased something when they didn't mean to, or their kids bought something without authorization, it's no surprise that Apple requires verification relatively often.
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Whatever happened to good old fasioned "support" instead of having to wash your dirty laundry in the public domain?
It seems user name disgruntlediphoneuser has already been taken!!
I now have a useless iPhone having tried to (using the iTunes application) upgrade ios to the latest offering because it was advising me to do so - HOW WRONG!?
How does one gets ones iPhone back to a working state when it wont update and it cant restore? My iphone is just constantly displaying the iTunes logo above an up arrow above a picture of the iPhone plug. It is connected and can read it in this state - but nothing else is possible - The iPhone equivalent to the blue screen of DEATH!
Support? what support - there is none - just this never ending loop that eventually gets you back into here - the peoples public washerette.
Anyone from Apple monitoring this ? I'd like a refund please (though I'd settle for a working iPhone). And dont keep sending me reminders to upgrade - that is clearly not a viable option.
Regards,
anotherdisgruntlediphoneuser!After a little more digging, decided to do a diagnostics test, and about half way down saw this little gem!:
DIAGNOSTICS:
Windows Firewall is on.
iTunes is NOT enabled in Windows Firewall.
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Well not quite! Though like most people I do have a Firewall to keep all those nasty hackers out.
So disabled it for 15 minutes & re-ran the 'Restore'
Finally ! Restoring taking place!! Though looking at the progress bar it might take a few days to restore it all off the cloud. Well at least I no longer have the iPhone screen of Death!
Note to Apple: Most people that access the internet would be fools not to have some form of Firewall running, if you must disallow Firewalls when doing updates, then: THIS NOTIFICATION (iTunes is NOT enabled in Windows Firewall) SHOULD APPEAR ON THE PRECURSORY WARNING DIALOG!! It could save a lot of people a lot of unnecessary anxiety - don't you think?
still: anotherdisgruntlediphoneuser -
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I have my iTunes library on an external HD because it is too big for my iMAC 500GB HD. However, it is not backed up, so I need a solution to backup my external HD. Can I do this with any Apple cloud product or should I look elsewhere for cloud products? Will it be cheaper/easier just to buy another external HD to back up my existing external HD? Thanks
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it is.
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4 - Does Apple still make batteries for this computer (from '07)? How much do they cost?
5 - How much does 1 more GB of memory cost?
I'll "ditto" sig's answers to these.
AND lastly -- is it even worth it to spend the $ on more RAM, a new battery and Office '11?
Or does it make more sense to just get a new computer entirely? (trying to avoid this).
If Office 2004 is still working fine for you, stick with that and don't incur the costs of Office 2011. As to the RAM, only add more if the test I mentioned above indicates that you need it. If you buy more RAM when you don't really need it, you won't see much (if any) performance improvement. That just leaves the battery... and if the machine is still doing what you need it to do and you don't really need a new machine for anything, you could definitely buy a new battery and get a few more years out of it. -
i cannot found iLife app on my macbook pro and when i want to buying it i cannot and i have this massage (These apps cannot be accepted by your Apple ID.These apps were already assigned to another Apple ID, and they will be available in that Apple ID's purchases list. If you don't have access to that AppleID and want to receive future updates, you will needto purchase the applications ) what i want to do now ? please tell me
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Can't buy iphoto in app store; another apple id on my macbook bought it before
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