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" <wgsc...@ucsc.edu> 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.
