decent source for laptop replacement battery for a Mac
 

My wife's Macbook Air that's 7 years old has a battery that's getting a bit dodgy. I'd like to replace it. I think pretty much any battery I get without paying the Apple folks to put theirs in is going to be Chinese, so I'd like to at least get the best Chinese knock-off battery that I can get.

Amazon is littered with $33-50 batteries. iFixit sells there's for $80. I suspect a big part of their price is that they are a fairly well known name.

Anyone have any thoughts or experience in replacement batteries?

They are probably all coming from the same place, even the $80 one. Find one on Amazon that has consistent reviews and go with it.

Called daughter who has been with Apple five years.

Agrees with your thoughts.

Wow, when I check Amazon, pretty much every battery I check has 8-9" 1 star reviews for batteries that were crap. But then I guess as long as it's Prime, I can return it and get a replacement.

Good to know.

Probably the same crapshoot with the batteries from Foxconn. They most likely have a few suppliers and sometime you get a bad apple in the bunch. lol

I have to get my batteries off eBay, because Amazon doesn't like to ship batteries to Hawaii.