Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / April 2005

Can you be more specific about what 'stuck inside the slot' means? Can
you move the ejection lever (on the lower front of the case, the lever
rotates towards the center of the unit, horizontally) at all? Does it
move and encounter resistance or does it just flop around?

Worst case, you might have to open the machine up to get the battery
out. If you can tell us about your technical aptitude (e.g. do small
screws violently flee from your person?) that gives us a better idea
about what advice is going to fly. Oh yeah, did you get the owner/user
manual with it? If not, get it from Apple's website and see whether it's
got anything enlightening to say about the subject.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50017
Yours is the last on one the page, Apple part no. 034-0930

Oh yeah, if you haven't already, check the archives of this group for
suggestions on how to (possibly) 'recalibrate' your battery (Peter
Renzland has posted on this subject), who makes replacements, how to
rebuild (and the hazards of attempting to do so) your battery yourself,
etc. I've posted on many Pismo-related subjects, having been an owner
for several years before its CPU failed, so that might help to narrow
down your searches. HTH