#Macbook pro 2010 battery expanding mac#

I decided to call Apple today to see how they would respond to this situation. So either we are just a statistical glitch, or there is a cover-up of some kind going on.

If our own situation here in southwest Nova Scotia is any indication, this is a pretty serious problem. But it seems to me that three batteries out of three is not a good statistic, however small and irrelevant in the big scheme of things it might appear to be. Of course, I have no way of conducting a scientifically sound survey of MacBook Pro 17вЂі owners to determine how widespread the problem is. (He does not do any on-line shopping and knows very little about computers in general.) I didnвЂ™t mention this to him, but I thought that I should give Apple a call and ask them if they really considered it normal that a battery bought 16 months ago was already so obviously and intrusively defective that it needed to be replaced again.ДЄnd then it happened to the battery in my own MacBook Pro 17вЂі too. Now I can obviously make the connection.ДЄnd guess what? Two weeks ago, that same client called me again to tell me that his new battery (from 2009) was bulging again! He asked me again to order another one for him. Since he was using an external mouse all the time anyway, I had just checked the option to ignore the trackpad altogether when a mouse is present and not researched the problem any further. When I replaced the battery for him, I did see what he had meant: The old battery was completely warped and sticking out of its slot so much that my client had had to remove it altogether.ДЄnd now, of course, I remember that, some time last year, before this bulging became obvious, he too had started experiencing trackpad problems. Since the computer was not under warranty anymore, he just asked to buy a new one, which I did. Last year, he told me that his battery was not working anymore and was bulging. ItвЂ™s a model thatвЂ™s identical to mine (except that he bought his in France) and dates back to around the same time.

#Macbook pro 2010 battery expanding mac#

And when I removed it, the trackpad went back to its normal behaviour and the button clicked properly again.ДЄmong my friends and clients who own Mac computers, exactly one (a 85-year-old French national exiled like me in southwest Nova Scotia) also owns a MacBook Pro 17вЂі. It was still working and reporting a proper charge, but it was definitely sticking out a bit. It didnвЂ™t take me long to find this thread on an Apple Discussions forum, which indicated that the trackpad problem I was experiencing could be linked to a problem with the battery.ДЄnd sure enough, when I went to check the MacBook Pro, I noticed that the battery had started to bulge slightly. I told my wife I would do a bit of research on-line about the problem. I went to System Preferences to check the option to ignore the trackpad altogether when a mouse is present. I thought that maybe it had died on us from wear and tear, even though my wife mostly uses an external mouse when sheвЂ™s at her desk-which is most of the time. I examined the trackpad more closely and observed that it seemed to be physically вЂњstuckвЂќ and wasnвЂ™t responding to clicks properly anymore. Half an hour later, she started complaining about the same problem again. I had seen that glitch a couple of times before, so I just told her to reboot the machine. I checked and indeed it seemed to behave as if the button was constantly pressed. Hardware-wise, it has been a fairly good machineвЂ¦ until now.ДЄll of a sudden, yesterday, my wife started complaining that the trackpad wasnвЂ™t working properly anymore.

Then in 2007, we bought a MacBook Pro 17вЂі. We ended up returning the machine for a refund and living with the TiBook for one more year. The AirPort reception was fabulous, but the mooing noise was a disaster.

Then in 2006 we bought a black MacBook to replace the old TiBook.

We just learned to live with it, by keeping the laptop fairly close to the wireless router, which meant using it in less than one-third of the total area of our house. We went through three different ones before we decided that there was no point in trying to get Apple to acknowledge that the machineвЂ™s AirPort signal reception was atrocious. My first laptop was a Titanium PowerBook G4, bought in 2001. My personal experience with Mac laptops is as follows.