At long, long last I’ve managed to get hold of a new battery for my rather battered looking 15″ Titanium Powerbook. The problem was that the battery format is different in the Titanium model to the current Aluminium range, and Apple (in all their wisdom) no longer supply batteries for this older model.
Not that they think to say as much when you browse through the details. You’ll note that on the Titanium battery section of Apple Store it says it’s possible to “Buy an additional battery”. Click through, and note that the battery item in the menu is for an aluminium powerbook battery. The form factor is different, as I discovered because I bloody well ordered one.
I should have complained, but didn’t bother: I had a friend who was willing to buy it off me at cost, which meant my motivation to complain evaporated, and Keith was happy with a new battery for his (much shinier) Aluminium laptop.
Unfortunately, I was still stuck with a duff battery. After some digging and enquiring, Global-batteries came to the rescue. The reason for the delay and uncertaintly was that on my old battery, I have “Model No A1012″, but their compatible battery part numbers didn’t quote my particular part number. No amount of googling could track down a supplier. So after a few e-mail enquiries, Global-Batteries (Specifically “James” in the UK) said that it is part compatable with part numbers M8244G/B, M8511, M8858LL/A.
So it duly arrived today (ordered it two days ago). I now have a nice new laptop battery plugged in and taking ages to charge up. As long as it takes ages to discharge, I’ll be very happy. Given I got just under two years of use (only 18 months of that as anything useful for protracted usee), I may well get another battery whilst I still can. It’s just a shame Apple discontinue part supply so quickly and don’t seem to have standard part numbers.
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July 7th, 2006 at 11:52 am
[...] Unfortunately, I neglected to clear down my old, tired, and very battered Titanium Powerbook G4 (800Mhz of G4 sluggishness compared to the 2Ghz of dual core wizziness I have awaiting me). So it’s taking ages to copy my old accounts across and I’m stuck doing Real Work when I could be “working” downstairs (I can’t classify using a brand new computer as work, hence the quotes) [...]