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Subject: [Leica] mac-windoz
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:13:40 +0000
References: <a3f189160907221857g3130d06dr7aa8206696b282d5@mail.gmail.com> <4A679594.16828.1B034A7@leica.rcmckee.com>

 
You can just go to the local mac store and buy a battery to replace or back 
up the one you already have.   No sending it in for replacement.


gene -------------- Original message from "R. Clayton McKee" <leica at 
rcmckee.com>: --------------


> Quoth the Sonny Carter :
> 
> > So, being forced by my son's University to buy him a MacBook, I
> > joined the ranks of the Mac Owners.  Fast forward, the year went by, and 
> > now
> > the dreaded X-battery icon.
> > 
> > First pass through the Mac clinic, and I got the machine back, and
> > the battery was charged, but it would not boot from the battery.
> 
> 
> Waitwaitwait...
> 
> You have to send a macbook into a service depot to replace the 
> BATTERY?
> 
> That's...  I've had half a dozen PC laptops and not one of them 
> required so much as a screwdriver for a battery change.  I carry, as 
> a matter of routine, multiple batteries for each of of the laptops I 
> use now; changing a discharged pack for a fully charged one takes 
> less than a minute, most of which involves dropping into "suspend to 
> disk" so I don't have to shut down working programs.
> 
> Why the hell would anyone buy a portable computer that couldn't 
> switch batteries?  
> 
> --
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] mac-windoz)
Message from leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee) ([Leica] mac-windoz)