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APPLE WOES….So remember how you guys were all over me for years about how bad PCs sucked and how I should get a Mac to solve all my problems etc. etc.? And so I finally got one a few months ago, and it worked fine. (Not really any better than a PC, to be honest, but it was fine.) Remember all that?

Well, guess what? I haven’t used my MacBook for a couple of months, but I pulled it out the other day and discovered that Macs don’t hibernate in order to extend battery life. They just go into standby mode when you close the lid, and then hibernate right before the battery goes completely dead. So of course my battery was completely dead. No big deal, though: I just plugged in the charger and went away for a few hours.

And nothing happened. The notebook no longer recognizes the battery and declines to charge it even a tiny bit. Reinstalled the battery, but that didn’t do any good. So now what? Take it into an Apple store and find out what’s wrong, I guess. What a pain. Why can’t Apple make decent hardware, anyway?

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