I would have been willing to pay for the battery, and I have no problem with them offering the service to people who feel they need it, but, no, I am not going to let those geniuses touch my computer. Of course, I could have put in the original 250 GB rotational drive and the original 4 GB memory back in etc, but my heart was just not in it. The thought of anyone at Apple touching the unauthorized upgrades created enough friction that I just dealt with it. I really thought I would have to ship the laptop to Apple for their geniuses to fiddle with it. Honestly, it is not horrible for a seven year old battery. Recently, battery life fell to an annoying 90 minutes. A couple of years later, it turned in to “ Replace Now”. ![]() Initially, the message was “ Service Battery”. For the past three or four years, it has been telling me that the battery needs to be replaced. Still, despite the fact that I really hate the stupid keyboard with a passion, it does work. In fact, if I could just upgrade its CPU just as easily as I upgraded the one in my new (to me) Thinkpad T400, I would be very happy. I am really no fan of the Steve Jobs + Apple attitude towards their users, but I with the 16 GB of memory and the SSD I put in it, this thing actually works fine for a lot of tasks that are not hugely compute intensive. I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro 7,1 which I bought almost seven years ago because a consulting gig with a certain company required it.
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