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Spicy MacBook Pro 15" Retina (Mid 2015) Battery (lemmynsfw.com)

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Now I get to try the iFixit kit. First time I’ll be fighting a glued battery. Can’t wait.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried the wire method on one before and it worked well, but took FOREVER to get through. It felt riskier than the spudger method to me, so I never did it again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I was just always afraid that because of the inherent angle of me pulling the wire towards the battery that I would end up pulling the wire into the battery and slicing into it. I don’t know how easy it is for a wire to slice into a battery casing, I assume it’s somewhat hard, but I wasn’t trying to find out

I ended up getting somewhat decent at these battery swaps though. There was a time where I could do it in like 20 minutes or so.

The worst part was when someone needed a trackpad replacement haha. It wasn’t common but when it happened it was like so do you want a new battery? because I’m gonna have to do all this pain in the ass shit anyway