My Mom's Macbook battery blew up...

[Brian McKee]

She called me up recently to tell me that her old Macbook battery had exploded. I sat there and said to tell the media, she laughed but I was almost half serious.

[Apollo Refugio]

3 minutes ago, Brian McKee said:

She called me up recently to tell me that her old Macbook battery had exploded. I sat there and said to tell the media, she laughed but I was almost half serious.

WARRANTY BITCH

[Spork829]

In the words of an IT consultant I worked with: "There are three things in the world of tech that fail like nothing else: Molex to SATA adapters, those graphics cards with the painted fanless heatsinks, and Macbook batteries".

[BrinkGG]

20 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

In the words of an IT consultant I worked with: "There are three things in the world of tech that fail like nothing else: Molex to SATA adapters, those graphics cards with the painted fanless heatsinks, and Macbook batteries".

But...But... Molex to Sata... I need that...

[Mooshi]

Is Apple OEMing batteries from Samsung? 

[Spork829]

4 minutes ago, Brink2Three said:

But...But... Molex to Sata... I need that...

I usually go off this: 

 

[BrinkGG]

3 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

I usually go off this: 

 

I love the 90 degree angle adapters... Super easy to custom sleeve and use. Good reference video!

[iamdarkyoshi]

They actually do this rather often at work, I've already replaced three batteries that swelled enough to break the trackpad (the thing shattered) and rip the screws out of the case...

[SLAYR]

1 hour ago, Brian McKee said:

She called me up recently to tell me that her old Macbook battery had exploded. I sat there and said to tell the media, she laughed but I was almost half serious.

There is safety cicuitry in the laptop to prevent a full-on explosion of the battery by limiting how much charge it can have, unless there was severly damage to the laptop it wouldn't have "exploded."

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

There is safety cicuitry in the laptop to prevent a full-on explosion of the battery by limiting how much charge it can have, unless there was severly damage to the laptop it wouldn't have "exploded."

Yeah, exploded is usually just the exaggerated way to say "expanded a bit and cracked the frame"

[iamdarkyoshi]

6 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

Yeah, exploded is usually just the exaggerated way to say "expanded a bit and cracked the frame"

Ehh, I would consider the macbook batteries at work to have been "exploded"

[SLAYR]

2 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Ehh, I would consider the macbook batteries at work to have been "exploded"

A little bit of swelling isn't an explosion.

 

Shooting flames, and erupting in a fireball is an explosion and very possible for Li-Ion batteries.

 

[Spork829]

28 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

A little bit of swelling isn't an explosion.

 

Shooting flames, and erupting in a fireball is an explosion and very possible for Li-Ion batteries.

 

Holy mother of ok wow