After getting home, I was able to find this service bulletin from Apple, which outlines which models are obsolete. No more original parts are available from Apple. Your model MacBook Pro was declared “Vintage”. Only after shaming him into looking up the actual part number, was he able to utter the phrase: When I went to the Apple Store at Suburban Square, PA, the “Genius” that looked at my computer took 15-20 minutes to look on the Apple website (which I obviously did before arriving, so no value-add there), only to show me a battery in stock that didn’t fit my model of computer.
Unfortunately, it seems near impossible (if not completely impossible) to get an OEM A1281 battery as a drop-in replacement. Since that time, my Late 2008 MacBook Pro continued to work flawlessly, most of the time keeping up with the scientific programming I would do in R, Python or Julia. It’s hard to believe it’s been over 2.5 years since I wrote about my experience with Apple trying to get my Broken MacBook Pro Hinge fixed.
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