Re:The Nightmare of Replacing a Battery on a Mac Laptop
by somewheres on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @01:00PM
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If it's plugged in, it can boot. Anything else is a malignant abomination masquerading as design.
No exceptions.
Re:The Nightmare of Replacing a Battery on a Mac Laptop
by dkonofalski on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @07:47PM
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That seems an awful lot like an opinion rather than an objective assessment. Yes, if it's plugged in, it can boot. If it gets unplugged, though, as laptops are wont to do, it can't. Ensuring that a laptop is, at a minimum, usable without power before allowing a boot seems like an excellent design.
I don't know this for sure, but I'm guessing that the device waits until it has enough charge to boot properly. Otherwise, if you disconnect the power source the computer does not have enough power to finish booting and will hard crash somewhere in the boot process. I don't know if it's enough to brick your machine but it's easier to just let the thing charge for a minute before you hit the button.