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MacBook battery killed by firmware update?

  • 17-01-2007 10:31am
    #1
    ButtermilkJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 632 ✭✭✭


    My battery has been completely killed by the firmware update released a few months back (article here).

    I just bought it last July and already it's useless. What do I do now? If I send it back to Apple (I bought it online) then it will probably take weeks to come back to me. I'm self-employed and work from home. I have no other machine. :(

    Has anyone else experienced this problem with their battery?


Comments

  • #2
    Thumper Long
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Thumper Long


    there is a known faultr with the batterys at the moment and it has not been caused by the fw update. if you contact applecare directly they will arrange to ship a battery to you and you wont be left without a machine.

    thump


  • #3
    ButtermilkJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 632 ✭✭✭ButtermilkJack


    Cheers Thumper, just got off the phone to AppleCare and they said I need to bring it in to a service centre and they will check the battery (he never offered to ship one out, do you think I should ring back and ask for one?). They gave me Mactivates number in Blanchardstown so I rang them and they can take it in to have a look but it will be 7-10 days before i get it back.

    I'm going on holidays for 10 days in Feb so I think I'll just wait until then and leave it in before I go. Can't be without it.


  • #4
    Thumper Long
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Thumper Long


    generally if an apple spare part is ordered before 1:30pm it should arrive next day at the service provider (providing its in stock, which most parts are) so 7-10 days is a piss take, if you let me know whether its a black or white one i'll let you know if its in stock with apple.


  • #5
    triple h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭triple h


    I bought an imac just before xmas and a week later it went funny on me. Apple replaced it and took back the old one and it was all done in six days. My new one is perfect, i love it. (I also have windows on my imac and i hate the windows and i was a windows user for 7 years)

    now lets go back to the original imac i first got. It was going perfect for 6 days and on day 6 i got a message about a firmware update. I updated and thats when the imac started going fuuny on me. Since i have my replaced imac i have refused twice to update firmware. I am afraid to update.

    Now firmware may not be the problem, but when i did ring apple care about the problem with my first imac the man said to me "did you recently update anything on your imac"

    I dont think anyone in here is going to change my mind about updating firmware.


  • #6
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,823 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    tripe_h wrote:
    I dont think anyone in here is going to change my mind about updating firmware.
    Not even for draft 802.11n? :D


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