Yeah I saw that. Well, it's on order. Not really
realistic for me to
stop using it entirely however. Since the failure rate is
actually
around 1 in 200,000, I'm not exactly losing sleep over it.
But I'm not letting it run unattended either, since I've
just said that
out loud, and the battery gods may take umbrage.
-Jay
Peter Lo wrote:
> Jay,
>
> FYI -- "Apple urges you to stop using your
battery, remove it from
> your system, and order a replacement battery
immediately"
>
> FAQ link:
>
> http://www.apple.com/support/batteryexchange/2006/faq/
>
> Peter Lo
>
> Jay Bryon wrote:
>
>> Thanks, just discovered I get a new battery for
free. Hopefully my
>> laptop will not emulate a road flare anytime soon,
I'll be keeping an
>> eye on it from now on...
>> Graham A. Patterson wrote:
>>
>>> [I assume this is already common knowledge on
Magnet which I do not
>>> see]
>>>
>>> It looks like some Macintosh laptops have
issues with Sony
>>> batteries, too.
>>>
>>> https://support.apple.com/ibook_powerbook/batteryexcha
nge/
>>>
>>>
>>> Graham
>>> --
>>> Graham Patterson, System Administration
>>> Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley (510)643-5397
>>>
>>>
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-Jay Bryon
Senior Network Engineer, IST-IS-NSO
(Network artists formerly known as CNS)
U.C. Berkeley
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