Laptop battery replacments starting to arrive

When I contacted Apple about the battery that was in my Powerbook (Yes, I'm one of the lucky 1.8 million people who get a shiny, new battery from Apple), I was told that my replacement would arrive in 4-6 weeks. I thought that was odd, as Apple's turnaround time is usually much better than that, but they do have nearly two million batteries to deal with, so I understand.

Today, two of our readers have written in to let us know that their replacements arrived today via FedEx, despite having been given the same 4-6 week window that I received. So, TUAWers, what has your experience been? Have any of you gotten shiny, new batteries over the past couple of days?

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horehay

i ordered my replacement battery the first day the recall was announced and have yet to receive my battery for my 12" 1.5ghz powerbook. Just wondering if anyone knew who i could contact to find out where my battery is.

September 29 2006 at 4:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Panagiotis Liberopoulos

Hi guys,
I have bought a second-hand iBook with the certain SNs of computer and battery. The local representative here in Greece (Rainbow SA) refuse to replace it since it is not bought by them. Has anybody any Apple 's email in the US customer care department? I searched on many places in their website,but I found nothing.
Thanks, Panagiotis

September 18 2006 at 11:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Florian S. Gutzwiller

I ordered mine on the 25th of August. I was told it could take up to 4-6 weeks - I got the new battery today (Sept. 14th).

September 14 2006 at 2:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ganzhimself

I got my new battery for my 12" iBook G4 today, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that coconut battery reports that my original battery only held a charge of 4400 mAh (originally), and that the new battery holds 4615 mAh. Not bad, my battery was down around the 4300 mAh range before I replaced it.

September 08 2006 at 1:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex

Submitted my request on August 29, just got it today (September 7).

I was running at 80% capacity or so on the old one, the new one has more than 100% capacity according to coconutBattery. Maybe I'll run through the calibration procedure to see if it changes.

September 07 2006 at 6:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Travis L

Mine came yesterday I donno who delivered it as i was sleeping but I have to return it via fedex.

September 06 2006 at 3:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stevievep

Check. New battery for 2+ year old 12" PB arrived today. Thank you, Apple.

September 06 2006 at 2:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tyler Hall

Mine arrived today.

September 06 2006 at 12:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Barry Williams

My wife's arrived on Monday (4th Sep) which was only 10 days since putting in the request!

http://www.bjw.me.uk/2006/09/apple-replacement-battery-program.html