I wish I’d taken a photo before completely removing the case, but you couldn’t miss this battery expansion. A swollen lithium ion battery in a MacBook Pro It hasn’t yet exhibited the same symptoms, but at work, I’ve encountered a 2012 model 15” Macbook Pro that has, on a magnificent scale. This time the battery was not user-replaceable Lo and behold about 2 years later I started to notice similar symptoms under the trackpad. In 2010 I got one of the early unibody 15″ Macbook Pros. The battery wasn’t lasting very long anymore either so I replaced it. A closer look at it revealed it was bulging in the middle. After about 18 months the battery cover kept popping open. I figured out some time ago that it was the battery because I first noticed it in a 2007 model 15” Macbook Pro that had a user-replaceable battery. Soon that bulge gets bigger and you can’t press the trackpad at all. Sometimes it seems like you can only press it when you apply pressure at the correct angles. Soon the trackpad starts to have problems. It starts out with what seems like a bit of a bulge under the front of your Macbook. In fact, every single Macbook I’ve ever owned has had this problem, some more than once. It’s a common problem with ageing Macbooks.
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