That's the downside of the magsafe connector. Besides which I wasn't really talking about the GP's laptop because the Air doesn't have removable batteries anyway.

Ah, I think you've mixed up the users. The person to which you replied was a different user that, aside from his admitted dualism, seems to be in complete agreement with you.

It's a belief held without evidence. You might as well posit fairies and elves. There's just as much evidence for their existence as there is for the parents claim.

I never made any such claim. I didn't say that he was right or wrong, only that there was no evidence to support his wild speculation. You woo woo's don't seem to care about evidence, you just believe whatever makes you feel good. It's sad, really, seeing you live in a fantasy world.

I see. You think that your evidence-free beliefs are unquestionably true and above scrutiny. Do you think Jesus told you or something? You woo woo's are lost cause!

2000 years ago, everyone else would have as well. What nonsense "point" are you failing to regurgitate?

Where did this come from? It looks like a desperate attempt to drag god in to the conversation, or you're terribly confused about what "dualism" means and entails. Perhaps both?

Oh, I should probably point out that the parent was agreeing with you. In your rush to fight the enemies of reason (which you are, ironically) you've managed to attack an ally.

Sounds like magical thinking to me.

But you know this already:

It's not a first step towards that at all. Not even a little bit.

Ugh. Why do you woo woo believers always jump to the first "conclusion" that makes you feel good? Why don't you base your beliefs on evidence instead? You'll find reality is more interesting that whatever magical nonsense you're going to promulgate next.

You're the most dangerous type of magical thinker -- you actually believe that there's science behind your wildly speculative beliefs.

To be fair it was worth the author doing it because now he has evidence to make a claim under warranty for replacement batteries. I agree though that more research is needed before we can see any kind of general trend with this model.

I wonder what replacement batteries Apple use for warranty stuff. Could be new, or could be refurbished. I know Lenovo do new ones but Dell do refurbs that usually only last just long enough to get out of the warranty period.

What a terrible design. Why on earth would you scale back the clock speed when there is actually less load on the charger? Do they use the battery as some kind of heatsink?

I've never had an issue with brown-outs either, but then again I live in the UK where we don't have many and even when we do our line voltage is 230V RMS. Most laptops have universal voltage power supplies so dropping to 120V is no problem. In fact I'm surprised it's much of an issue in the US, considering that such PSUs are normally capable of running on Japanese 100V systems down to 90V (-10%). Does every desktop need a UPS as well?

With the laptop sat stationary on a desk pulling the charger out shouldn't be a big issue. I guess maybe the magsafe magnets need to be a bit stronger. Most laptops don't have gaps where the battery is to let in dust, and if anything would eject it there due to positive pressure created by the cooling fan. The old Macs used to be like that, but I have not taken recent one apart.

Can we shoot the shitty font designers .. please? :-)

Almost as bad as the retards who make ONE and lowercase L look the same, or ZERO and uppercase O.

While hard data would be nice we can reason that his results are unsurprising.

The older laptop was a more conventional type and thus would almost certainly keep the batteries a bit cooler than the newer, ultrabook style one. Heat accelerates the decline of batteries. I'm not surprised by this result.

PROTIP: Remove your laptop battery if you are running from the mains most of the time and keep it in a cool drawer somewhere.

He is clearly just trying to show remorse and get a lighter sentence now. In any measurable way his actions have made the world a better place, no not resulted in any demonstrable harm (except what the US deserves for its actions).

Can't blame him when he could be facing the rest of his life in jail, but I don't believe him for a second.

This is why "edutainment" software failed. Kids are not as dumb as the developers thought.

Try introducing him to Japanese or Chinese. Many dyslexic people find they may have trouble with English but not with non-alphabet based languages. Japanese is probably the easier to start with because of the three character sets used two are phonetic and there are only 48 per set (actually it's even less than that, half are just variations of the other half).

The problem is detecting such a small device. Unless it draws a very large amount of energy it would be impossible to pick out from someone who just moved some furniture in their house.