Just to indicate, amidst all these tales of disaster, that not everyone has bad experiences with Apple laptops.
I bought my first generation MacBook Air in February 2008, one week after they were first announced. I have been using it pretty much permananently since then. I have not had any catastrophic battery issues, although a charge is now only good for about 3 hours continuous use. Still, mustn't be complacent, so I won't leave it to recharge on the sofa overnight from now on...
However, a few months ago one of the hinges on the screen broke so I took it along to the local Apple Store and they replaced it with a new screen free of charge even though the machine was more than 4 years old. (By the way, I am not a regular customer of theirs and don't know anyone there personally.) In a way I was a little disappointed because I wanted an excuse to buy one of the newer MBAs with more than the 2 Gbyte memory and 80 Gbyte disk that my early model has (you can now get them with 8 Gbyte and a 256 Gbyte SSD)...
best wishes
Pete
Prof Peter Artymiuk
Krebs Institute
Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S10 2TN
ENGLAND
On 20 Nov 2012, at 09:25, Charles Ballard wrote:
> To add to the general list (and future class action). I have just had the battery expansion on one for the second time. Added to the number of them I have bricked by letting the charge run down to low by unplugging them. Interestingly apple agreed to replace the bricked batteries free of charge, for their US customers. But, us foreigners had to pay for the pleasure...
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> Charles
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> On 18 Nov 2012, at 17:30, Bosch, Juergen wrote:
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>> Bill I think that's crap.
>> I had issues on a 2005 MacBook Pro with inflating battery and it was replaced (after about 6 months). There were troubles with those batteries and impurities but mine still had apple care at that time and the batteries were exchangeable.
>> I have not heard of the build in batteries to have problems but yours sure did. Send Tim Cook an email with the picture. This should not have happened and also keeping the power cord on leading to this problem should not have happened. For what did they introduce the trickling charging ? If you can't leave the coord plugged in how many nice wooden US households gave caught fire due to Apple products ?
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>> Jürgen
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>> Jürgen Bosch
>> Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
>> Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
>> Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
>> 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708
>> Baltimore, MD 21205
>> Phone: +1-410-614-4742
>> Lab: +1-410-614-4894
>> Fax: +1-410-955-3655
>> http://lupo.jhsph.edu
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>> On Nov 17, 2012, at 16:28, "William G. Scott" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Hi folks:
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>>> I'm trying to get a sense for how frequently this sort of thing occurs:
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>>> <CIMG4451.jpeg>
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>>> That was a macbook air that served me well for four years, but then self-destructed. (I took it to the Apple store. They generously offered to repair it for $800 or to sell me a new one, and suggested this was normal if you leave the power cord attached after the battery charges, even while giving a lecture or seminar.) It strikes me as a bit dangerous.
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>>> --Bill Scott
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>>> William G. Scott
>>> Professor
>>> Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
>>> and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA
>>> 228 Sinsheimer Laboratories
>>> University of California at Santa Cruz
>>> Santa Cruz, California 95064
>>> USA
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