Re: MB Pro Battery Failure

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject	Re: MB Pro Battery Failure
Date	2015-07-29 17:08 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<d1sfk6Fdp7dU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<290720151211192722%star@sky.net>

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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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JR

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MB Pro Battery Failure Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-07-29 12:11 -0400
  Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-07-29 17:08 +0000
  Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> - 2015-07-29 18:32 -0400
    Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-07-29 21:22 -0400
      Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-07-29 19:49 -0700
      Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> - 2015-07-30 10:14 -0400
        Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Savageduck <savageduck1@(REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-07-30 09:11 -0700
          Re: MB Pro Battery Failure nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-30 12:17 -0400
        Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-07-31 00:17 +0000
  Re: MB Pro Battery Failure David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2015-07-29 22:19 -0700
    Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-07-30 09:34 -0400
      Re: MB Pro Battery Failure nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-30 09:37 -0400
      Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 12:24 -0400
        Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-07-30 19:20 -0400
          Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-07-31 07:53 -0400
            Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-07-31 23:48 +0000
      Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-30 12:59 -0400
  Re: MB Pro Battery Failure Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-30 08:06 -0400

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