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if you are going to sell it anytime within the next 6 months -- get the cheapo battery and don't worry about it.
If it's already a dated laptop - why spend money on something you probably won't keep around for that much longer?
I would avoid getting an ebay battery at all costs, especially for a laptop. If you still don't want to buy an OEM battery, the only other place I'd buy from is OtherWorldComputing.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/powerbook/batteries/
I've had good luck with these, similar build quality to the OEM ones.
I would avoid getting an ebay battery at all costs, especially for a laptop.
I'm still running my late 06 C2D MBP and plan on using it until it literally stops running.
Just buy the Ebay batteries, I've been doing it since I bought the MBP new and they had those battery issues. I can't tell you whether or not they last longer than the Apple branded batteries because my Apple branded battery was defective, but I can tell you that I get a good year or two out of them before they need to be replaced. Even if you do have to replace them more frequently, they literally cost a 1/3 of what Apple charges, so why not save yourself some coin?
edit: Also, if you plan on keeping it around for awhile, invest in a SSD drive and throw out the cd drive, if it hasn't gone bad already. Easily the best upgrade I've made to my aging Mac so far.
I do have an SSD laying around... I'll shove that baby in
And why throw out the CD drive? Like, literally remove it from the notebook to make it lighter?
Because sometimes those eBay batteries may cause some random stability issues and such in a laptop. They're generally of lower quality. With that said, my personal success rate with ebay laptop batteries has been about 50%. Two of them ended up causing issues as noted before but the other two are working fine.Why is this?
This. Here's a guide for help:Take out the optical drive so you can have 1 SSD (for the OS) and 1 HDD (for storage/big apps)
I'm still running my late 06 C2D MBP and plan on using it until it literally stops running.
Just buy the Ebay batteries, I've been doing it since I bought the MBP new and they had those battery issues. I can't tell you whether or not they last longer than the Apple branded batteries because my Apple branded battery was defective, but I can tell you that I get a good year or two out of them before they need to be replaced. Even if you do have to replace them more frequently, they literally cost a 1/3 of what Apple charges, so why not save yourself some coin?
edit: Also, if you plan on keeping it around for awhile, invest in a SSD drive and throw out the cd drive, if it hasn't gone bad already. Easily the best upgrade I've made to my aging Mac so far.
Where did you buy the mount for the older non-unibody MBPs? Optibay charges $100 for them, which is more than what I'm willing to pay. I wish I could find one for $15-20 like the ones for the unibody models.