will a Mac Book run w AC plugin but dead or no battery?

1. a question - 26 September 2008

   Will a Mac Book run with the AC adapter plugged into the wall socket if the battery is no longer working or if the battery is removed? Serious answers only please - I can always verify them with Apple or on the Web. :^)

2. Dave Balderstone - 26 September 2008

   So why are you asking here?

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3. a question - 26 September 2008

   Hoping for an answer from a human being rather than a printed page, but I see that there is no chance of that here. Thanks.
   One less reader for this dying newsgroup.

4. Dave Balderstone - 26 September 2008

   One more poster with the attention span of a mayfly...

   The answer is, of course, yes. But if you actually have a MacBook you could have tested for yourself.

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5. Jolly Roger - 26 September 2008

   The people who volunteer their free time here do have lives, despite what you may think. It's not like we wait here for you with nothing better to do. If you can't be bothered to lift a finger and exert the minimal energy required to do a simple web search, why should the rest of us clamor to do it for you?

   Bye bye now.

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   JR

6. Mike Rosenberg - 26 September 2008

   Jolly Roger wrote:

   The people who volunteer their free time here do have lives...

   We do???? Damn, I've gotta start reading the memos!

   Oops, time to get ready to go out dancing...

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7. Jolly Roger - 26 September 2008

   Knock 'em dead, Mike! : )

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8. Barry Margolin - 26 September 2008

   I'm not sure about MacBook, but MacBook Pro requires a minimal charge in the battery. I accidentally drained my battery a couple of nights ago, and when I tried to start up the next morning I had to charge it for about 10 minutes before it would boot.

   Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
   Arlington, MA
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9. a question - 28 September 2008

   The simple reason that I didn't "test" was that I didn't want to damage my MacBook by attempting to run it without a battery connected. As I've discovered from the web, AC fluctuations can damage components and using the AC power adapter only can cause overheating. There is plenty of info on the web and I found much more than I needed without snotty replies from those who are too intellectual to be bothered with simple questions.

   http://batteryuniversity.com/

10. a question - 28 September 2008

    Thanks, Barry.

11. Dave Balderstone - 28 September 2008

    And yet you began the thread on a snotty note, telling everyone that you were capable of checking for the info on the web, just unwilling to.

    Perhaps this site will be of some utility to you:

    <http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>

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12. Mike Rosenberg - 28 September 2008

    Honestly, what kind of responses did you think this statement would lead to? When you said you're going to check up on the answers you get, you told us two things:

    1. You know how to find exactly what you're looking for in the first place, so why should someone put in the effort for you?

    2. You're not going to trust the answers you get, and you're going to put in that effort anyway, so why no just do it in the first place and not cause a ruckus?

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13. Victor - 28 September 2008

    On Sep 26, 11:18=A0am, a question wrote:

    Will a Mac Book run with the AC adapter plugged into the wall socket if the battery is no longer working or if the battery is removed? =A0 Serious answers only please - I can always verify them with Apple or on the Web. =A0:^)

    Yes. This is what Best Buy does to their laptop displays (Macbook and Macbook Pro) because of battery theft. It should run just fine.

14. a question - 28 September 2008

    Previously, Dave Balderstone wrote:

    <http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>

    Thanks, Dave, but the last thing I have time for is a lengthy discourse on Usenet procedure and netiquette. I'm capable of being a very nice guy. But, I've come to expect smarty answers to simple questions and I was protecting myself, I thought.
    Since the Mac Book battery is a lithium-ion, it works well when plugged into AC constantly, it doesn't require the regular discharge and recharge cycle conditioning of nickel-based batteries and it protects the system from AC spikes or drops when it is connected to the system by keeping a steady flow of current. So, I think I'll leave it in since lithium-ion is more subject to age failure than over or undercharge failure.
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15. Florian Zschocke - 28 September 2008

    Also, the most elder Powerbooks show this behavior.
    If you don't have a battery you can overcome this with a complete power drain (plug off, remove battery, press power button 10 sec). After a power drain, most of them will power on. Only a very few really need a minimum of charge in the battery. I also was able to start these few without a battery when I also removed the backup battery.

    Florian

16. James Sidbury - 30 September 2008

    Then you're an idiot. I don't mean this in a bad way but how could you possibly think that telling someone that they had better give you a straight answer because you were going to check on them is a way of protecting yourself? It seemed to me that you were being very confrontational and that's not the way to get answers.

    dick
    -- that's one reason that I didn't answer your question.

17. Mark Shapiro - 10 October 2008

    Also, the most elder Powerbooks show this behavior. If you don't have a battery you can overcome this with a complete power drain (plug off, remove battery, press power button 10 sec). After a power drain, most of them will power on. Only a very few really need a minimum of charge in the battery. I also was able to start these few without a battery when I also removed the backup battery.

    Yes, the Pismo will boot with no batteries at all.
    Most will boot that way - the newer ones need the
    full discharge (power button held down a while with
    no paper souce to discharge the internal capacitors and such) for a longer period than the old ones.

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