[OSX-Users] Re: Battery replacement warranty excuses

[Philip Boulain]

Chris Andrews wrote:
> ...batteries are classed as consumables where the rest of the hardware 
> is not.

That's more than slightly arbitrary. "Turns out that if you actually use 
your mouse button for three years, it wears out. Mouse buttons are now 
consumables."

> Everyone may or may not be happy to hear that the new MacBooks have 
> all now switched to a new type of Li-polymer battery which is rated as 
> good for 1000 charge/discharge cycles. Given that Apple plaster this 
> number all over their marketing, you can be pretty sure that they'll 
> honour a warranty on the battery up to that number. 

...especially as they're now hidden beneath a UniBody construction which 
means that replacing them /requires/ a trip to the Genius Bar, even if 
you're paying? (Or am I just thinking of the iProducts?)

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