[das]

With all the incorrect and misleading information and news articles, rumors of class action lawsuits, and other ridiculousness surrounding the iPod battery, I've decided to start an iPod Battery FAQ. The FAQ is located at:

http://ipodbatteryfaq.com/

It contains concise, correct, up-to-date information dealing with questions people may have about iPod batteries. Comments, suggestions, corrections, and updates welcome at info@ipodbatteryfaq.com.

[jhhcr]

Read your faq, but I just learned that the ipod warranty only covers 6 month.

After 8 month my 15GB ipod is only running for 1-2 hours on a full charge. Well thought I have 12 month of waranty (as stated on my receipt), so I went to the local Apple store ( Cambridge, MA) and was told they test it, and if it runs on two days under 4 hours, they will replace the battery for 29.99 plus tax, for free if its under 6 month old. So there is only a 6 month waranty on the battery. Obviously ticked off I asked were that was stated in writing, but was told by the Mac genis that I have waranty. it just cost me 29.99. He also recommened to join the class action suite if I am not willing to take the gratious offer to hand over more money to apple to have my iPod fixed during the warrany period. Could any one point me to the ipod class action web page? That they charge even during waranty means they have a problem which is too expensive to fix and they are willing to sacrifice the costumers they tick off by this. Thanks for the help. Since you can buy the battery else where for 40 bucks, they probably even make money with it. Try calling apple support on this, but thats another nightmare. What a rip off.

[FXWizard]

As I posted in jhhcr's other thread batteries do wear out over time; perhaps this is why there's a charge to replace them after 6 months?