I’ve been having major problems with my MacBook Pro battery lately.

I haven’t been able to run the laptop on battery power reliably for the past month or so. The charge will get down to around 50% then the entire computer just shuts off.

Today was the breaking point, as I unplugged the laptop from power and it just shut off not five minutes after.

After a quick call to Apple support it turns out they’re going to send me a new battery, free of charge.

You’ve got to love support like that. Thanks Apple.

Update

Got the battery, and it works like a champ. Who knows what caused the other one to flake out like that…