I have had Apple replace the battery on my Ti-book. I
didn't ask them to, but it was in for something else. The old
battery was OK but the new battery was much better. With that new
battery I once ran Word for 8 hours on my 550 TiBook and had 30% of
the battery left (monitor turned
The Apple rep told me that batteries are considered disposable, like
the tires on a car. I bought a high capacity Newer battery. I can't
compare it to an apple battery since I just got the Tibook used, but
battery life seems quite good. The one I replaced had a life of 5
minutes.
On Oct
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 4:49 am -0400, Jim Eddy wrote:
I just bought a used TiBook with 8 months remaining on the computer.
The battery runs down to nothing in about 5 minutes, recharges to 100%
in about the same time, but no lights will light. Sounds dead to me,
unless there's some magic
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 6:41 pm +0100, Tim Hodgson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 4:49 am -0400, Jim Eddy wrote:
I just bought a used TiBook with 8 months remaining on the computer.
The battery runs down to nothing in about 5 minutes, recharges to 100%
in about the same time, but no lights
I just bought a used TiBook with 8 months remaining on the computer.
The battery runs down to nothing in about 5 minutes, recharges to 100%
in about the same time, but no lights will light. Sounds dead to me,
unless there's some magic to perform. Can it be replaced under
Applecare?
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