Ben Lam of Installingcats enjoyed a longer battery life on his MBP after he installed a replacement lithium-polymer unit made by SMP in exchange for the one made by Sony.
If you’re interested in what battery runs your Mac, simply call up the System Profiler utility.
A quick way of doing this is to press command-spacebar to call up Spotlight, and enter “profiler” (not the entire string needs to be typed in – System Profiler should be listed under Top Hit) in the search box.
Click on Power under Hardware, and have a look at the manufacturer:
I’m glad the battery in my MacBook Pro is made by SMP, although I’m still not exactly certain how one would ensure that their MacBook Pro battery
To understand what the rest of the Power information in the System Profiler is all about, read this forum discussion.
A forum post on discussions.apple.com by neuroanatomist has a little more information about the issues with Sony-made batteries for the MacBook Pro, and points to this MacBook and MacBook Pro Battery Update 1.2 bulletin.
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Hi David,
I believe the battery life issue with the Sony batteries was due to a manufacturing fault. Theoretically, if one had a non-faulty Sony battery in their Macbook, they should get roughly the same battery life as the new SMP supplied batteries.
Best regards,
Ben
I see, Ben. Thanks very much for stopping by and clarifying the whole thing.
I had two faulty sony batteries, both swapped after 1 year on average, the last one I got under apple care is SMP and I hope it will last longer.
anyways I’m very happy about customer care and… guys…. 5 mins substitutions of faulty batteries. How could I complain to have a new battery in a 3 year old macbook pro, just a month before warranty expired. Luck!