Well about a year or so ago, I purchased 2 APC batteries for my powerbook and since then I've had to return them twice for whatever reason--whether it be the battery not interfacing with the power contacts properly or the batteries simply not charging.
So yesterday, I get my 2nd new pair of batteries in the mail. First battery seems to be working fine, charges up completely and is operational. I stick the 2nd battery into the optical drive bay and the computer freezes. Several warm boot attempts were unsuccessful. I get to hearing the chime, but no screen, no nothing. Power manager is reset, all power sources disconnected, re-connect the power, and we're back in business.
Next, I move the battery to the left bay in thinking that something may be wrong with the right bay. Again, machine freezes and is totally unresponsive.
Tomorrow in class, I'm going to have my friend try the battery out, who's also a Pismo user. I'm hoping that he'll have the same problem I had, then we KNOW that it's a battery problem.
In retrospect, not knowing to much about laptop batteries from the get-go, I thought APC would make a decent product such as their laptop batteries. They seem to make very decent UPS'es, I figured it would be no different.
They tout "Legendary Reliability," yet I haven't found them to be reliable at all.
Now I know that batteries are iffy to begin with, and I'm not really mad about the whole thing. But just the downtime and hassle of sending these batteries back to get new ones that may not even work correctly out of the box is starting to become frustrating.
So in addition to sending back my 2 old batteries under warranty, it may now have to be 3 including this "new" one at my expense. I think a letter is in order.
Just great.
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