The MacBook Pros have been out for almost six months now, and one would hope that most of the kinks have been worked out. Of course, plenty of Macs have developed problems well on into their years. My Performa 6300 is the perfect example. Not only did it require a logic board replacement, but its monitor eventually lost the color red. Which was annoying in a number of circumstances.
Latest in the line of MacBook Pro woes are users who are reporting batteries that have swollen. This can result in batteries that don’t charge, computer that turn off, and issues with the trackpad (the swollen battery can prevent the trackpad button from clicking). In some rare cases, it seems that it can also cause the battery case to bulge apart (shades of the splitting MacBook!). There’s no figure on how many MBPs might be affected, but the Apple discussion board threads suggest that it’s more than just isolated occurrences. Apple needs to seriously get on this, because not only are these problems causing inconvenience for MBP users, but I’d guess that batteries splitting apart like that could pose a safety risk.
I’ve got my fingers crossed that it won’t affect the MacBooks too. Any MBP users running into this issue?
[via Infinite Loop]
