Last fall, the Magazine ran a great article by John Hockenberryabout the problems with batteries. If you haven't read it, stop what you're doing now and do so. It's totally fascinating. Batteries are absolutely essential to most things in life, but they are shockingly unreliable -- and unsophisticated. Consider this: In the last 150 years, battery performance has increased eightfold. Microprocessors do that every six years.
Yeah.
So it's little surprise that batteries blow up and bulge and do weird things all the time. We push them beyond their actual capabilities. The above image comes courtesy of an unfortunate soul named Brian, whose lovely MacBook Pro suddenly shut off in while watching a movie. Then it did it again, and then the battery cells tried to escape their banks. There are more images through the link. I've heard mumblings about this for awhile, but it's clearly not a fluke at this point. Anyone else dealing with this?
Swollen batteries affecting 17-inch MacBook Pros too? - Engadget
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