All over the blogosphere there are reports about the new MacBook and MacBook Pro’s performance decreasing when the battery is removed. By 37% to be exact. This hereby raises the questions: why did Apple allow this? What else did they do to ruin our lives? And WHO IN THE HELL CARES???

The Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro lines are laptops, or more specifically, according to Apple, notebooks. Laptops and notebooks are precisely this: portable computers. Why on earth are you removing the battery for anything more than maintenance? If you’re using your MacBook as a main computer (which I do, in fact) I’m almost certain that you don’t have to have the battery out.

I want to know who is a perpetual MacBook or any sort of notebook user who uses their portable computer without the battery in it that this 37% decrease in performance would really…REALLY affect. It doesn’t affect me, not only because I’m still using an ancient MacBook, but if I did, in fact, get myself a new MacBook Pro (hint hint xmas gift) the contacts for that battery would never see the light of day unless I was upgrading my RAM or Hard Drive. You know why? Because I use a portable computer the way it’s supposed to be used: in the office, out of the office, on the road, on a plane, in class, outside of class, at my friends house, at my neighbor’s house, at a client’s house, at my girlfriend’s house. (HINT: when typing most of these posts, I’m running on battery)

So shame on anyone who’s making a fuss about it.

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[11/23/08] TUAW