If you recall, I have a rather nice MacBook Pro but have had a few issues with it in the past. Over the break I got a new power adapter to fix an issue I had with my old one but just a couple days ago I was hit with another problem: My battery wasn’t charging. And, unlike last time this was happening, the laptop worked fine off AC power (before the adapter overheated and stopped, temporarily) but the batter would discharge and not charge again.
After talking to the folks at AppleCare, I physically took my laptop up to the nearest Apple Retail Store and talked to one of the geniuses there. It turns out that the issue was with the battery itself and - thanks to my warranty - I was issued a new battery. Problem solved.
Now what’s interesting (and quite delightful about this) is that your average lithium-ion battery has a useful life of about 300 cycles (a full charge/discharge cycle.) In the 5 months that I’ve had my laptop, I’ve used 90 cycles already! (Using a laptop 10 hours a day, 7 days a week will do that.) So I was quite pleased at getting a replacement.
