On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:19 , Dan wrote: > > At 3:05 PM +0000 1/7/2009, Simon Royal wrote: >> >> If the battery lasts five years > > Never happen. LOL > >> and you don't have Apple Care > > moot - batteries and their related replacement costs (labor) are not > covered by AppleCare. > > And I should mention that one of my client's MBA has *already* > required a battery replacement. I don't recall what the Apple Store > charged him, but he was fuming over it. It took five business days > for them to do the work. > >> at that point it is going to cost you a fortune to get it replaced. >> It is an added carrot for Apple to entice people to buy a new >> laptop. It kind of gives it a disposable 'use and bin' attitude to >> computers. > > Exactly! LOL My housemate's comment: If you can afford that MBP, > you can afford to buy a whole new one in 18 months. > >> I like to get the most out of old machines. I am writing this on a >> PowerBook G4 867Mhz 15" which is now stretching just over 6 years old >> - which is perfectly suited (and more) for what I need but I doubt it >> is the original battery in it and would have been replaced a long >> time >> ago and very easily. > > Our 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 is on its 2nd battery. With both wi-fi and > bluetooth on, it currently gets about 1 3/4 hours. We're probably > going to get a new battery for it next month.
Not sure if it's relevant but I read an announcement on the web that an Apple spokeperson has declared that replacing the battery in the new MBP 17" would cost $179 at the Apple store where you can walk in to have it replace and wait for them to perform the replacement. The flat fee includes the battery and the service, which doesn't seem too bad. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software [email protected] Photo Gallery Store: http://laurentdaudelin.shutterbugstorefront.com/g/galleries --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
