Macbook battery dead

I left my macbook sleeping and the dnext day It was out of battery, I pluged, and surprise, no battery detected anymore, just a X in the battery icon. I tried reseting the power manager, and pram, but not a chance. Think I just wasnt born to use a MAc!! I had so many problems with my macbook, it went 4 times to the tech support, and cant belive, I am just about to sell the remaining parts of this and buy a dell

I was with osx .6 since I did I clean reinstall, so I download the opdate to .10 and instaled the battery update, but didnt work ! Now I guess I will have to get take it to the tech again, and wait 1 or 2 months to the lazy brazilian tech guys get me a new battery. I dont blame apple, but how could they (and all the other brands) been developing their produtcs since the 70s and they still cant make a computer that just works! Without a hole bunch of bugs, uptades, firmware updates, reset ram and pram things, battery recalls. Thanks god those people doesnt are not in the car bussiness , or even worst, in the airport business.
I guess that I will sell the macbook just after the repair, I have been fooled since june 2006 when I bought this and it can go trought 1 month without a brandly new bug that takes me 2, 3 days studyng how to repair, plus 4 times I sent this macbook to the tech and they always "repair" it , it always come it a new defect. I am really upset, now I undertand why the poor and ungly windows is the major used os, you can get viruses and security issues, but not this kind of headeache. And I found many websites about thousands of users complaining about apple defect.. Sorry, I had to say all this, thans for your support Magus

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