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Switch laptop batteries without a coin Laptop Macs
Thu, Nov 1 2007 at 1:05PM PDT • Contributed by: WinUser
When on the road, I have a spare battery in my bag for my PowerBook G4. But being a modern person, I have no coins in my wallet anymore. This is a problem when I want to change the battery of my lapptop.

I tried unlocking the battery with a key, but that was not easy. Then I discovered that one of the corners of the spare battery can be used very well to unlock the other battery. No more coins for me. I don't know if this works for other *books as well.
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Switch laptop batteries without a coin
Authored by: JaxMyers on Thu, Nov 1 2007 at 1:24PM PDT
I do the same thing! :)

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Switch laptop batteries without a coin
Authored by: opudeldix on Fri, Nov 2 2007 at 8:08AM PDT
Hmm. I use my thumbnail. Pros: I never foget it. Cons: none

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Switch laptop batteries without a coin
Authored by: bricklayer on Thu, Nov 1 2007 at 2:16PM PDT
The current MacBook Pro batteries require only two thumbs to release them.

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Switch laptop batteries without a coin
Authored by: scottzer0 on Thu, Nov 1 2007 at 4:50PM PDT
where's quality/noise control here?

this is a tool-using-monkey-hints.com post.

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Rings work too!
Authored by: _merlin on Thu, Nov 1 2007 at 5:19PM PDT
My wife uses her wedding ring to release her notebook battery.

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Relevancy?
Authored by: Westacular on Thu, Nov 1 2007 at 11:25PM PDT
When was the last time Apple even made a laptop that needed something like this?


"Submitted by WinUser"

Nevermind.

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Switch laptop batteries without a coin
Authored by: rev_karol on Fri, Nov 2 2007 at 8:13AM PDT
Round peg, square hole...

Come on, it's not like we're stuck for new hints or anything, Leopard has just come out. This is hardly McGuyver stuff.

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