TiBook battery got unusual heat and melted it's casing..should i call support?

Hi Everyone,

I am new to this community and I need some opinions.


I have Ti Powerbook G4 (550Mhz) I bought brand new 10 or 11 years ago.

I still in love with this Titanium beauty and still use this for browsing internet.

(Amazingly, it still works just fine to do)


I bought macbook air few month ago but there is "something" about this

Titanium baby.



Anyway, I was using my Tibook few days ago on my lap and I felt

unusual heat (it was very very hot) on my lap. I flipped it and check out

the buttom of my Tibook and WOW, the battery casing was started to melting,

so I just took the battery out of my Tibook.

The battery casing melted a bit (looks like cigarette burn from inside) so I am keeping this

battery in safe place just incase it caught fire.


This battery is not aftermarket, this is original battery came with my Tibook when I bought it

brand new.


I googled this problem and I didnt find any battery problem with Tibook 550mhz model.


Should I report this problem to customer support? Does Apple still sell genuine battery for this Tibook?

This is my first battery problem and after this happening, I am very scared to buy thirdparty's

PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Powerbook G4 Titanium 550Mhz

Posted on Jan 2, 2012 6:56 PM

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Jan 2, 2012 10:08 PM in response to kdog246

I wouldn't bother customer support. The fact that you got a decade or more out of the battery makes it an outlier in longevity. Not a lot of those batteries make it that far, though some seem to be remarkably blessed. One of mine tanked in three and a half years (without melting, at least), one is remarkably robust and one is still quite serviceable at eight years, and the two aftermarket batteries are still holding up (though one is only a year old or so).


I got the 75 Watt-Hour model for the TiBooks at OWC last year and it is quite durable. Apple hasn't sourced Titanium PowerBook batteries for years, I suspect they were "off the shelves" by 2006, as that was when I bought my first aftermarket unit. I have seen good comments on the OWC batteries on these discussions, though you might want to wait for others to chime in.

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