MacBook Pro Life Span?

The very new MacBook Pro has a built in battery that is to last 1000 charges at an 8 hour usage per charge.
If one is used and recharged everyday, that mean the computer is useless after about 125 days. With no way to replace the battery, there goes your computer.
One wonders about the AppleCare program or the so called warranty period.

Bud Willner wrote:
If you were in Spain, you might get wet! Your skills wont keep you dry.
Have you ever tried to replace a permanently battery in a laptop? I believe the last one I saw soldered in was the desktop Lisa.
I don't own one but I would be surprised if iPods and iPhones have permanently install batteries. As for laptops, the recalls and replacements is extremely limited as is the power adapter.
As for using ones computer for more than 8 hours a day, one needs to be working in the scientific community. It's is a work and home computer.
My skills? I am working in the scientific community, thank you very much. Personally, I may do 16 hours of computer time in a day, occasionally. But it's tough to do the kind of science that I do without electrical power handy - and with said electrical power, I can connect my laptop to an AC power source and not drain the battery. As it so happens, I have electricity in my home as well. Fancy that.
I would hazard a guess that you are not in the scientific community, or if you are, it's a branch of said community far removed from mathematics, a point of mine above which you seemed to conveniently ignore.
As aptly stated, iPods, iPhones, and the 17" unibody MBP have replaceable batteries, just not replaceable by the user.
Bud Willner wrote:
Board is to insulting to continue.
Sorry if you feel insulted - I will remind you that you set the tone for the thread. Personally, I will not continue in this thread.

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Firstly am pretty annoyed as think Appple is really going downhill fast (iphone 5 have seem issues with battery but service in hk ***). The battery on this new computer has a complete life span on 2.42hours. This is with only this webpage open so thus my concern. It is just crap. That cant be right i am guessing as the website says up to 7hrs.
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I would say that 2,42 hrs would be disappointing to me as well for light duty CPU loads. Now understand that Apples battery life claims are based on Ebenezer Scrooge setting. My rule of thumb that for my 'normal' use will be about 2/3s of Apples advertised times.
I do note your general satisfaction, but as a fellow user there is nothing that I can do to assist you in that area All I can do is point you to these two articles that may give some strategies where you may be able to increase the battery life:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446
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The 7 hour battery life is maximum that can be expected with minimal drain, but 3-4 hours either means you are using it very, very hard or the battery is bad. OR the gauge needs calibration, see below.
Turn off WiFi if you are not using it, and dim the display to also save battery power. It also depends on the applications that you are using.
One months is awfully fast for you to lose that much battery time. If the laptop was new, then I would talk to the seller about an exchange, at least exchanging the battery.
Have you tried calibrating the battery? See
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/9036.html
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Hopefully someone can give me some useful info on what to do!!
About 3 days ago I noticed that the battery status on my MacBook pro 15 mid 2009 changed to service battery.
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I installed iStat Pro so I could check the temperature and fan speeds. I'm seeing temperatures of 70+ on the GPU, 85+ on the GPU diode and 65+ on the CPU heatsink along with elvated fan speeds above 5K which becomes noticeably noisy. I understand that might be normal for the most processor intensive tasks but it really doesn't seem right for just light web browsing and e-mailing. (I also may have viber and skype open but that shouldn't matter). CPU usage is usually running between 2-10% as this is all happening to.
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What should I do here? When I asked the repair guys "OK well what is the normal operating temp range for the various sensors" they said "Sorry Apple doesn't provide that info".

Yes I have.
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