Maybe by then Apple will be reading these again.When switching files between Windows and Mac, the portable external drive is the most frequently-used tool. So, it will now be another 10 years before I ask another question in here. If I did that, I would not have time to do my own job to support my family. Also, the reason I have not contributed to anything here is because I don't have time to scroll through web forums responding to every post I can answer. This comes from 2 decades of experience of dealing with Apple. I am not going to call customer service or the Genius Bar because for the most part, they know nothing about the motherboard. With this client, who is a VP, I need to give them a definitive answer so when 'guesses' are given (which is mostly what I see here as the answers given whenever I have tried to find solutions to Apple related issues). That is why I came here in hopes that Apple still responded to these forums (and yes, they used to respond here because i used to know a few that worked for Apple that would respond here and this was oh, around 1997 to 2001 when I first had an account here).Ĭraig, I am not trying to be arrogant, but I need facts.

I looked at iFixit too and there were a couple of things on the motherboard that could have been a battery that was soldered onto the board. Doing so is hard on the battery and shortens its useful lifespan and is an undesirable and inadvisable practice.įunny. Quite apart from the PRAM battery question, you should be telling your clients not to run their batteries down to zilch whether or not their date and time settings are lost. I wouldn't bother with AppleCare for this I doubt that the time would be well spent. But by all means, call any Apple Authorized Service Provider and put the question to the service manager. I'm comfortable 'guessing' that that means there's no PRAM battery in any unibody MBP. Before replying above, I also checked the highly reliable iFixit Guide MBP take-apart instructions and confirmed that iFixit provides PRAM battery replacement instructions for all non-unibody MBPs and no unibody MBPs. My guess, as you call it, was based on daily participation in the MBP forums, reading at least half of all the posts in them, for the past 2.5 years, and never seeing a single one that mentioned removing or replacing a PRAM battery in any unibody MBP. Apple provides direct, professional technical support through other channels. They have always been user-to-user, all-volunteer forums. The rate of direct responses from Apple personnel to posts here has been somewhere in the one per 10,000 to one per 100,000 range at least since 1995, when I started participating in the forums (which were then called eWorld, later Apple Discussions, and now Apple Support Communities). Sorry to disappoint you, but Apple has never responded to posts in these forums as a matter of course.

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