Bill I think that's crap. I had issues on a 2005 MacBook Pro with inflating battery and it was replaced (after about 6 months). There were troubles with those batteries and impurities but mine still had apple care at that time and the batteries were exchangeable. I have not heard of the build in batteries to have problems but yours sure did. Send Tim Cook an email with the picture. This should not have happened and also keeping the power cord on leading to this problem should not have happened. For what did they introduce the trickling charging ? If you can't leave the coord plugged in how many nice wooden US households gave caught fire due to Apple products ?
Jürgen ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Phone: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-3655 http://lupo.jhsph.edu On Nov 17, 2012, at 16:28, "William G. Scott" <wgsc...@ucsc.edu> wrote: > Hi folks: > > I'm trying to get a sense for how frequently this sort of thing occurs: > > <CIMG4451.jpeg> > > That was a macbook air that served me well for four years, but then > self-destructed. (I took it to the Apple store. They generously offered to > repair it for $800 or to sell me a new one, and suggested this was normal if > you leave the power cord attached after the battery charges, even while > giving a lecture or seminar.) It strikes me as a bit dangerous. > > --Bill Scott > > > > > > William G. Scott > Professor > Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry > and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA > 228 Sinsheimer Laboratories > University of California at Santa Cruz > Santa Cruz, California 95064 > USA > > >
