[X4U] How much can it cost

[Daly Jessup]

>On May 30, 2008, at 7:48 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>
>>but often the first sign that the battery is dead is that your Mac 
>>won't startup.
>
>
>kind of a side note, but does this strike anybody else here as a 
>kind of dumb design?
>having to re-set the date by hand bcs of a dead pram battery is one 
>thing, but having a whole computer rendered inoperable by something 
>so small...just seems stoopid to me.
>
>I had 1 pram battery go bad on me in my life...was the DP G4, but I 
>could still fire the thing up at least.

It doesn't strike me as stupid at all. After all, every other 
battery-driven device I have dies if the battery dies:  CD players, 
radios, phones, everything. Why not the computer?

Daly
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