There are three ways I know of to release the adhesive: heat or cold, dissolve with solvent, or mechanically breaking with a string. (Never use metal tools around these batteries! Never!) The reason why it’s difficult is this battery is a six-segmented beast held down by even more beastly adhesive. People have ignited their old batteries by puncturing them or fried their logic board. The replacement process for this battery is known to be daunting. iFixit does a lot for the hacking community and I feel they do a bit more due diligence on their parts than random Amazon/Ebay sellers. I got the iFixit Replacement Battery, even though there were cheaper ones to be had on Amazon or Ebay. So I replaced it and I think it is working out great. ![]() And it still worked, unlike a previous Macbook’s battery that ended up getting a bad cell that caused it to unceremoniously shutdown at 20%. ![]() I got 1600 charge cycles out of it though, which is astounding. And it’s wonderful.īut now 3.5 years on, the once legendary battery was at about half its design capacity. They had all the useful ports like USB-A, HDMI, an SD Card slot, and MagSafe! And it had a long-lived battery in a thin case. I really like the generation previous to the current Macbook Pros.
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