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Every single Macbook I've ever owned (five to date) has had a defective battery. My 2015 13" MBP had a swollen battery, but no recall for that apparently. I wo
by mullingitover 7y ago
Every single Macbook I've ever owned (five to date) has had a defective battery. My 2015 13" MBP had a swollen battery, but no recall for that apparently.
I wonder if they're only offering a 90-day warranty on the replacement. In 2006 I had an MBP with two battery recalls. The third one only had a 90 day warranty (it failed, too, at the four month mark).
- whynotminot 7y agoEvery single device I've ever owned has had a defective battery eventually. It Is the Nature of Things
- mullingitover 7y agoSure, but I don't think lithium batteries are normally supposed to have a failure mode where they swell. All my Macbooks, save my precious 2008 (imho when Macbook design just about peaked) swelled.
- cortesoft 7y agoReally? I have so many lithium batteries that are swollen, for so many products.
- whynotminot 7y agoIt's pretty normal for Lithium Ion batteries to swell. You see it constantly with smartphones especially, where it's very obvious given the tight tolerances in modern devices. I say this as someone who's worked with racks and racks of smartphones used for testing. Eventually they pretty much all swell.
- tigershark 7y agoMmm...my iphone 4 didn’t swell after it was used for 7 years.
- whynotminot 7y agoI will take your one phone as disproving all of my experience. Thanks! In all seriousness, I have an iPhone 4S whose battery is in tatters but also hasn’t swollen (that I can tell, anyway). It doesn’t happen to every single battery. It does happen to a significant portion of them over time.