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   From: nospam@nospam.invalid   
      
   In article , danny burstein   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   > I've run into a related battery problem with a decade old Macbook.   
   >   
   > I just replaced the battery with a noname.   
   >   
   > It works fine, and gives me a couple of hours of run time   
   > (not sure how it compares to the "real" ones, but it's adequate).   
   >   
   > HOWEVER, some of the programs (that's you, Firefox) are running   
   > a lot slower.   
   >   
   > Why?   
   >   
   > I ran some diagnostics and pulled up the logs via Terminal,   
   > and discovered a huge chunk of error messages that were   
   > apparently generated by the operating system trying to   
   > talk to the battery.  And these were displaying with   
   > the "previous message repeated 100 times" line.   
   >   
   > It looked like it was enough to mess things up.   
   >   
   > Afraid I don't have the laptop here so can't quote it   
   > exactly, but when I did a deep Duck search, some other   
   > people suggested it was a battery deal.   
   >   
   > Sure enough, when I slapped in my old battery (it still   
   > works, but only for 15 minutes...) those messages vanished.   
      
   it will also run slower without a battery, which is what in effect is   
   happening when it can't communicate with the battery.   
      
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