The old saying about cars depreciating the moment you drive them off the lot goes double for notebook batteries, which lose a bit of their maximum capacity with every charge cycle. The battery is the one component of your portable Mac that is all but guaranteed to fail eventually… though especially in the case of the newest integrated batteries, it may take as long as a decade to die out completely, depending on your usage habits.
How can you tell if your battery is close to failing? More important than that, if it is close to failing, how can you get it replaced? Click “Read More” to find out.
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AppleCare Adventures: How to get a faulty MacBook battery replaced originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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