New battery for Black Macbook A1181

You can get a new third party battery fairly cheap on eBay. Every MacBook from 2006 through Mid 2009 except the Late 2008 Aluminum Unibody and the Late 2009 and 2010 White Unibodies use the same A1185 battery.

Black Batteries

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=macbook+black+battery&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=12 &_dmpt=Laptop_Batteries&_odkw=macbook+white+battery&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0. m 270.l1313

If your friend's battery is warped, he may be able to bring it back to the Apple Store like I did. Place the battery, bottom side down, on a flat surface. If it does not sit flat and "rocks," it's a faulty battery. Mine was years old, but they replaced it free of charge.

My battery story for what it's worth. 2007 MacBook battery finally got to the point where it was unusable unless plugged in. Didn't want to pay $129 for Apples battery so read many reviews and ordered a battery for about $65 from Amazon, it had several great reviews. It didn't fit, wouldn't allow the trackpad button to click. They cheerfully replaced it with another that didn't fit. Got a refund and took my money to OWC where I paid $89, great reviews.....battery lasted a little under 18 months. Disposed of it properly (sure I did) and bought Apples battery, which I should have done in the first place. That MacBook died from logic board failure and I bought a 2009 model on eBay....the Apple battery is still going strong.

Moral of the story......ya get what ya pay for.

And for the cost of a new battery, you could likely get the logic board checked and the defective solder joint fixed.

Good battery story. In an as-new iBook G4 bought online from Apple Store, I returned new batteries under the/then battery replacement program. Mine had no sign of failure or defect. The two new replacements were cycled in use so they were about equal in use.

These are like produce and do not store well if not exercised. Anyway, these replacements failed to retain a useable portion of their battery life cycles in as little as 55, each; no matter the various well-known hoops a user can push their portable and its batteries through.

So, I'm looking at a battery from OWC because there are few other sources as the hardware goes antique on me. And am looking at a SSD for that last-model iBook 12" but doubt the upgrade is worth it. And also have a MacBook 13" coreduo, G4 mini, & others.

{the portable was bought to use while endless repair attempts were made on an iMac under warranty failed to bring it up to servicability and I'd already donated away a nice working Mac on arrival of my first Apple under AppleCare. Sadly, no authorized service in my state at the time existed that could fix it. It's dead, too}

Anyway, you get what you paid for, depending on what you pay for in addition to what you get. Express shipping got the warranty papers in a box the next day, but they forgot to ship the computer, it took a month from Apple since it was sent eventually by slow ground via Canada. The route that broke earlier new Macs.

So the OWC battery looks fairly good, at a distance.

Never did any business with them so far.

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

I did better than get the logic board checked, I parted the thing out on eBay and made just slightly less than it cost me to buy a gently used model that was two years newer! I got lucky......BTW I've still got that logic board sitting in a box under my desk!

Hmmm.

Probably won't fit a different portable I was given that likely needs a logic board or one soldered. I was able to get it to try and boot, but it has many needs including a new DC-in board. Battery is good, screen is good when it gets that far. I'm thinking wegenermedia for one or two of my portables.

Thanks for the feedback.

And some batteries are

better than others. Even

those from Apple can be.

🙂

Bought a battery for a black Macbook on eBay a few months ago. It works well.

I am in Toronto and the seller shipped it here.