The bad news: My laptop battery, which was already too quirky for my tastes, completely stopped working yesterday morning.
The good news: I was at home and back from the NTC where a failed battery would have been a much bigger disaster.
The better news: It turns out I am eligible for the 15-inch MacBook Pro Battery Exchange Program so I should be getting a brand new battery in the mail soon.
Whew!
Quite incredibly, the battery showed up here yesterday – 24 hours after I signed up for the exchange program on Apple’s website!
It appears to be fine, but I haven’t actually unplugged the laptop yet, so we’ll see. Oh and there’s this small a matter of the battery not quite fitting in the slot, which Brian says sometimes happen when the laptop case gets warped. 🙁