Following up with parts 3, 2, and 1 - I finally received my replacement TruePower battery from FastMac. I can honestly say I probably wouldn’t have this battery by now if it hadn’t been for me E-mailing the utter crap out FastMac. Let me recap just in case you missed something, or if you’d rather not read all 3 parts. Back in June of 2009 I had an issue with a MacBook Pro battery from FastMac. The battery lost all of it’s cycles, dropped it’s charge, and then came back to life. When the battery came back to life, several cells died, they became swollen and dead. This resulted in an unbelievable amount of power loss. I contacted FastMac to get a replacement since I was under warranty. This was in the last two weeks of June. They told me there would be a back-order until the beginning of July 2009, roughly three weeks, FastMac informed me. This was fine with me. I was out of town, so two weeks went by. I shipped the package out, they received the package one week after I had shipped it. This was the cap of the three week waiting period. So I expected a quick turn around and to have my battery replaced shortly.
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- ^ here’s an ugly image for a ugly situation.
Following up with part 2 of the battery fiasco. I have not had any luck contacting FastMac by e-mail. There have not been any updates about the whereabouts of the replacement battery since my last post. FastMac hasn’t contacted me since writing part 2. I called FastMac today to see what’s going on. They actually answered! FastMac told me they are expecting a shipment in the first week(s) of September. The fellow that I spoke with said it could be as early as this week. I, for one, highly doubt it. We’ll give them the benifit of the doubt though. I know this post really is not anything more than a status update. I thought I would let you all know the status of the battery as of today.
Apple decided to share the matte goodness with the 15-inch MacBook Pro unibody. Before today the anti-glare matte finish was only available on the 17-inch MacBook Pro. The matte finish will cost you an extra $50 bones, to me it’s worth it.
I am finding it hard to resist a new unibody MacBook Pro now. My pre-unibody is still serving me well though, so I guess I shouldn’t jump on the uni right now. This is still good news to know, just in case that glossy finish was scaring you off. I know it scared me off!