I have had several, note plural, swollen batteries from older MBPs when they were the external kind and not the internal as now.
My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames
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Re: My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames
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>the 2018 one I have right now since they can't be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered. I'm going a little offtopic, but I cannot believe this. I haven't owned a Mac since having a 2010 MBP (which I loved dearly for 6 years), but I cannot imagine owning a laptop that doesn't allow me to switch the internal drive. It was annoying enough with all of the screws on the 2010 model. I'm sure there is…
Yes... soldered RAM, hard drive and everything into a pricy motherboard so if any of the cheaper components fail, you can pay for a whole new motherboard.
writing this on an ancient macbook air, on my 3rd self installed battery. I have a battery swelling damaged but still working trackpad. Can't bring myself to buy a new Macbook if it's not upgradeable...Apple you need to fix this with a user upgradeable model
Re: My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames
#153I have had several, note plural, swollen batteries from older MBPs when they were the external kind and not the internal as now.
I've seen this on non-Apple laptops too. But, since this is 'hacker' 'news', anecdotes that do not work in Apple's favor get several front page postings here.
Re: My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames
#154My desktop caught fire once. I pulled the plug and the fire went out. Turns out the graphics card burst into flames. That had never happened to me before in 40 years of desktops. I had a fair amount of smoke damage that needed cleaning up. Now it sits on a piece of sheet steel instead of the wood floor. Edit: I usually assemble my desktop cases from mail order parts. This desktop happened to have a metal case rather…
I had a Sun Sparc Classic with a Sun 17" CRT monitor. It was the monitor that caught fire due to a build of dust on the electronics. Call me dirty, I guess.
"Back in the day" I worked in a ~50 person organization where there was a senior luddite who was the bane of the IT department. Well one day her monitor caught on fire. We engaged the services of the maintenance department to have a custom frame and plaque made for the charred circuit board. I suspect it still hangs in the server room to this day.
Re: My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames
#155Is there a way to make these batteries fail-safe?
Could the device itself know when the battery is bulging, on fire, whatever?
Could the power connectors themselves be designed to disconnect if the battery expands?
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You can use a service like Backblaze[1] and encrypt the backups with a password. This is saving you a LOT of worry and risk for $6/month. [1] https://www.backblaze.com
I'm pretty sure the recovery process for backblaze includes them decrypting your files on their infrastructure and then sending to you. Or something like that. I did a ton of research into the different options recently and didn't like backblaze because of that. However, I decided to give them a try anyway as I was partly researching for a friend who desperately needed backups and didn't care about that as much. So I…
I'll point out that nothing stops you, with any service at all, from encrypting yourself then backing that up. Ie., it's completely fine with Backblaze to dump everything into an encrypted sparseimage first, and then back up that rather then your drive directly. That's not to say getting a couple of simple external USB HDDs and then rotating them into a firesafe offsite once a week isn't a good idea too, or having a NAS, or any of an endless number of other solutions.
But in many cases using a 3rd party cloud service has advantages, and if you take care of encrypting contents yourself so that you just plain can ignore any security or lack thereof it'll make more options available, and possibly cheaper ones. It's all just bits and bytes.
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#157Those fumes in the video can't be healthy, right?
Why is this person standing there just inhaling that? I would be very concerned about breathing battery-fire fumes, no?
Maybe they are not as toxic as I think? What should one do if this happens? Pouring water might make things worse, right?
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The model is "MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)" and here is the link to check your serial number: https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall I have this model and my Macbooks serial number is not "eligible". Let's hope for the best... :'(
I've seen dozens of comments over the last 24 hours saying that people have swelling batteries but their serial number is not covered. I would hope for a more comprehensive recall soon since these issues just keep popping up.
I'm one of them, and I'm a 2018 model! My serial number is not covered. The best part is since I live in Central America there is no apple store here, and the official resellers told me I must take it to the USA where I bought it. The last apple product I will ever buy.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes... soldered RAM, hard drive and everything into a pricy motherboard so if any of the cheaper components fail, you can pay for a whole new motherboard.
writing this on an ancient macbook air, on my 3rd self installed battery. I have a battery swelling damaged but still working trackpad. Can't bring myself to buy a new Macbook if it's not upgradeable...Apple you need to fix this with a user upgradeable model
Yeah, you need a 2012 Macbook. Get the best CPU possible, add a cheap SSD, max the RAM
Re: My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames
#160This started to happen to mine at work too. Luckily I got it down to IT before it started on fire. They took the hard drive out. Opening the case released pressure on the swelling battery. As soon as it was open the battery started swelling faster. The case could never have been closed again. The whole enclosure bent like a soda can. I should have figured out earlier what was going on. The first sign was the computer…
>the 2018 one I have right now since they can't be opened with a screwdriver and the internal SSD is soldered. I'm going a little offtopic, but I cannot believe this. I haven't owned a Mac since having a 2010 MBP (which I loved dearly for 6 years), but I cannot imagine owning a laptop that doesn't allow me to switch the internal drive. It was annoying enough with all of the screws on the 2010 model. I'm sure there is…
Don't buy one then :)