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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: MB Pro Battery Failure
Date: 29 Jul 2015 17:08:22 GMT
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On 2015-07-29, Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
> My "17-inch, Early 2008" model. This laptop is important to me because
> it contains a piece of astronomy software that is no longer available
> and that the a-hole developer who sold it does not allow it to be
> transferred to a new machine. A while back I gave this machine a new
> lease on life with a terabyte SSD that made it feel like a new machine
> again.
>
> Suddenly, a few days ago, the click-pad (separate from the track pad)
> could not be depressed. I understood immediately that the battery must
> have swollen and was pushing upward against the click-pad. In fact,
> when I removed the battery it popped open
><https://www.flickr.com/photos/primeval/19496710643/>. Luckily, I
> discovered the problem immediately, before it spewed fuming nitric acid
> or GMO wheat or whatever it is all over the place!

Seven years. Not bad.

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