In typical Apple way, if you click on it you’ll be shown a useful page that lists the options of a normal battery (nothing is shown), “replace soon”, “replace now” (what you see above) and “service battery”: Normally when you check your battery status, you’ll probably see something like this:īut what you’re seeing is probably something more like this: Then again, with a typical life of 500+ charges, it should last you at least a few years, and at $1/day, it’s a simple and smart investment that definitely makes your computer function better and makes your work safer. In fact, I just replaced the battery in an Apple iBook and it was $119 + tax through the Apple Store. The bummer is that, well, yeah, it’s going to be kind of expensive. Oh, and with a completely dead battery you probably can’t even keep it in sleep mode while you’re moving from one spot to another either, having to constantly shut down and restart it.Īs you surmise, the solution is to replace the battery with one that hasn’t been charged to its end life. In fact, with a bad battery, your laptop basically becomes a small desktop machine with a premium pricetag for its ostensible portability.

Worse, if you are ever running with the computer plugged in and there’s a power glitch or someone accidentally unplugs it, if you don’t have a functional battery it’ll instantly kill your MacBook and you’ll lose everything you’ve been working on, any open files, etc. This is an easy one: any time that the computer complains about your battery, you have a problem if you need to ever work without a plug.

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