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I think the swollen batteries are quite common in the MacBook Pros. Seems to be plenty of reports on the net. Typically people seem to notice this when the trac
by jpalomaki 7y ago
I think the swollen batteries are quite common in the MacBook Pros. Seems to be plenty of reports on the net. Typically people seem to notice this when the trackpad or keyboard starts acting funny.
Not sure if Apple even considers that as a defect or if it is just the way some of the batteries are expected to behave when they get old.
- asadkn 7y agoWhich is really odd that I have never experienced or seen it in the older laptops. Perhaps it's a fairly new thing in the increasingly common thin form factor (Apple or otherwise but I haven't heard much of others).
- jandrese 7y agoOlder laptops left space for the batteries so they could swell slightly without damaging the laptop. Apple's design leaves no such space.
- rightbyte 7y agoAre Apple using cylindrical cells or pouches? Cylindrical cells doesn't swell in the same way and have pressure cap before they crack the shell. Pouches probably has to swell abit before their cap pop.
- roland35 7y agoI think old battery packs (and new ones for larger laptops) were generally cylindrical cells, and the new ones are flat packs which do seem to have more issues with mechanical problems (like Samsung's phones a few years ago) which cause swelling.
- tluyben2 7y agoYep, I have 3 older models with swollen batteries.
- analog31 7y agoI have a new-ish Dell laptop, and its battery spontaneously started bulging. It was right after I took it away from my desk after many weeks of sitting on the charging dock. First I thought I had accidentally cracked it open, pushed it back together, and a couple minutes later it cracked open again on its own. Fortunately this was a "work" computer, the IT crew fixed it in a jiffy. But I wonder if it uses a similar type of battery, looked like a thin black pillow when the tech took it apart.
- mrep 7y agoHappened to my 2013 one this year with half the trackpad not clicking and the fans spinning crazy loud. I ended up paying apple $300 to fix it which at the time annoyed me but they ended up replacing the battery, fans, trackpad, case, keyboard, and potentially even the monitor so it felt brand new when I got it back which was nice.
- knd775 7y agoEverything but the logic board, I guess? That's pretty nice
- beezischillin 7y agoThey told us that it’s caused by running it off of the charger exclusively 24/7 instead of using it like a loptop with full drain and charge cycles. 4 of our 2015 models swelled out of 4