The seller’s reputation looked good, the reviews for the battery looked good, so I ordered it. On eBay, I found this battery offered by a user called hako-in. The quality might be subpar, it might actually be dangerous etc. Now, there is some risk in buying a battery from a non-Apple source. Until a few days ago when I decided to take a look at what was being offered on Amazon and eBay. So, the MacBook Pro spent most of its days neglected, tethered to a power outlet somewhere. 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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