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Heathernet Help Desk: Laptop Batteries

Most college grads of these outrageous aughts have come to know the distress that comes with our laptop's lithium ion battery calling it a good run before even a good two or three years of school is run off of our machine. Not only is it frustrating for the many of us who have made the Apple switch, it quickly becomes unfairly expensive. This leads us to proudly declaring that our machine "just works," and then add, "when we plug it in." My computer is four years old and begging for it's third new battery to take drinks from. Um, hey, I leave the "electronic device that incurs a regular cost to use" job to my iPhone, thanks. 

In the past this has led me to search for a solution and I've also given some quasi-flawed advice on the topic. Read on for my update on the problem: