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Comments on ‘Apple releases MacBook battery update’

Rest easy, not the explosion-preventing kind

By Austin Modine in Mountain View
Published Friday 27th April 2007 23:36 GMT

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Battery deformity fix 

By Simn Lovatt
Posted Saturday 28th April 2007 12:00 GMT

What this patch does, in fact is change over the positive and the negative ports on the battery very rapidly, causing the inside of the battery to go all "gooey" (techspeak). The battery casing then returns to its original shape due to the memory effect of the plastic

*nods*

Look over there.. *runs*

i bet that doesn't mean...... 

By Jimathy
Posted Saturday 28th April 2007 21:24 GMT

applecare cover on those machines gets an extra year does it?

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