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... > > Charles > > On 18 Nov 2012, at 17:30, Bosch, Juergen wrote: > >> 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 ? >> >> Jürgen >> ...................... >> 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 >> >> On Nov 17, 2012, at 16:28, "William G. Scott" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi folks: >>> >>> I'm trying to get a sense for how frequently this sort of thing occurs: >>> >>> <CIMG4451.jpeg> >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> --Bill Scott >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> > > -- > Scanned by iCritical.
