{"id":7743,"date":"2012-07-26T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7743"},"modified":"2012-07-26T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:46:08","slug":"fattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/fattery\/","title":{"rendered":"Fattery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0398.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7744\" title=\"New vs old\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0398.jpg 640w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0398-160x86.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0398-320x173.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0398-500x271.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve had my MacBook for just over three years (just past AppleCare, alas), but recently the trackpad had been acting up. I couldn&#8217;t get it to click and drag at all. Opening up the case showed me that the battery was getting a bit, well, tubby \u00e2\u20ac\u201d something that apparently happens as Lithium Ion batteries age.<\/p>\n<p>I finally ordered a new one, and it came today. It&#8217;s nearly 50% slimmer, and sits flat on the table, unlike the old battery. My trackpad works perfectly again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my MacBook for just over three years (just past AppleCare, alas), but recently the trackpad had been acting up. I couldn&#8217;t get it to click and drag at all. Opening up the case showed me that the battery was getting a bit, well, tubby \u00e2\u20ac\u201d something that apparently happens as Lithium Ion batteries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[890,2538,269,2539],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-battery","tag-li-ion","tag-mac","tag-swollen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQNZZ-fattery","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7746,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions\/7746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}