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New MacBook Pro performance degrades with the battery removed

TheAppleBlog found this 11/24/2008 on blogs.zdnet.com

Gearlog has discovered a weird issue with the latest generation (Late 2008) MacBook Pros – they run like dogs when the battery is removed. To the tune of a 37-percent drop in speed without the battery. Zach Honig benchmarked a 2.53GHz MacBook Pro with Maxon’s Cinebench R10. With a battery ...