MacBook Pro mid 2010 13 inch battery?

Please make a Genius Appointment and take it in for service.

White-1,

I have the same model MacBook Pro as you. When new, our model’s battery has a full charge capacity of 5800 mA·h. Your battery currently has a full charge capacity of 4423 mA·h — 76% of its new capacity. Since it’s below 80% of its new capacity, Apple considers your battery “consumed”, and recommends that it be replaced. Apple states that the battery’s maximum cycle count (note that key word maximum) is 1000 before it is consumed; as you can see, it can be consumed before it reaches that maximum. No amount of calibration will restore your battery’s lost charge capacity; your choices are to either replace its battery or to live with its reduced capacity.

To maximize the life of your replacement battery, start recharging it when it gets down to 20%. Running on battery down to lower percentages will shorten its life.

Melophage wrote:

Apple states that the battery’s maximum cycle count (note that key word maximum) is 1000 before it is consumed;

It's quite important to remember that the lawyers added two wiggle words to convert a tech parameter into Legalize (my emphasis in bold italics):

The built-in battery of your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air is designed to deliver up to 1000 full charge and discharge cycles

[from http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html under the section, "Your New Notebook"]

That means they don't HAVE to replace a battery that signaled "Service battery" but is otherwise not showing signs of failure like leakage or short runtime.

ToWhite-1: Were it I and I were getting reasonable runtime, I'd be inclined to ignore that warning for the time being and simply watch for sudden changes or a catastrophic drop in runtime.

White-1,

as it stands now, it doesn’t do that. If you’d like for future versions of OS X to do that, then you’ll have to take it up with Apple — you can provide feedback to them here.

Allan,

the lawyers certainly are involved with the terms and conditions of the hardware warranties and the AppleCare Protection Plan terms and conditions; in both cases, they state that gratis battery replacement is only provided for defects in materials or workmanship. A short runtime can be caused by user behavior; it is not necessarily due to defects in materials or workmanship.

White-1,

if you find the battery usable in its current condition, then keep using it. If you don’t find it usable, then replace it.

Last year i've bought a Macbook Pro 13" medio 2012.

Now, almost a year later and after 433 cycles, i only have 78% battery health left.

Yesterday i had a battery warning so i went to the apple store.

They've told me my battery is about to break down and that i had to wait a bit longer until it breaks down.

Can i replace my battery for free ( i have Applecare) when it breaks down=( -75% battery health?) at lets say 475 cycles?

Joeridk,

AppleCare only covers gratis battery replacement when the battery is defective due to materials or workmanship. If your battery isn’t defective, but merely consumed, then AppleCare doesn’t cover it, and you’ll need to pay for a replacement battery. (Apple considers your battery consumed when its “health” [current full charge capacity] is 80% or lower of its original full charge capacity. There’s no guarantee that your battery will last for a given number of cycles, since user behavior can reduce the battery’s life. To maximize the life of your next battery, be sure to start recharging it when it gets down to 20% charge.)

I have an Original Macbook Air (1,1) with a battery with over 380 cycles and about 6 years of usage and it has yet to show service battery. I consider myself lucky. Last year its old ZIF drive was replaced with an OWC SSD. Although the charger cable broke and a new charger was needed.