HUGE question, is the harddrive under the battery?

For all of you that have recieved your macbook I am wondering if the Hard drive can be accessed easily. I would like to change the drive out but wondering if the whole case will have t be removed to do it. There was speculation that the removal plate might be under the battery.
Any help from current owners would be greatly appreciated.

ok just took the plunge and bought myself a 120gb drive so it might be too late to ask this question lol.
Does it look to you that the connector is the inward part of the drive and that the drive will have to be shimmied up on the opposite side and then pulled out?
Also does this new DROP system in the macbook involve any wires being attached to the drive or is it all external?
Thanks for the help. getting nervous already.
Kalel

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I have a couple of questions about the battery in general.
Is it normal that my iPod Touch 4G charges very fast? It reaches 60% in only one hour and it's fully charged before it takes two hours. I know this is not bad but I'm just worried. How can I be sure if it's really loaded?
Is it normal that the battery is very quick empty when I'm gaming? For now I'm blaming this due to the quick charge.
Is it normal that for example my battery level is at 30% and when I put on standby or something or close a game, the battery starts rising for approx. 5% even 10% sometimes?
Those are my question, I hope they are clear enough. Thanks in advance.
Regards

1. The tech specs says:
Charging times: Fast charge in about 2 hours (80% capacity), full charge in about 4 hours
2. Heavy use like gaming drains the batery fater then other use. The tech specs say:
Video playback time: Up to 7 hours when fully charged
3.. Yes, the indicate capacity tends to rise after heary draining is stopped. The battery indicator is not that accurate is affected by temperature. Heavy use increases battery temperature and when it decreases battery temperature decreases.

Mid-2013 Macbook Air: question about the battery life

First of all, I'm sorry if these questions have been already asked, I've looked around and I've seen some answers, but none that fit my specific case.
I have had this computer since December (Macbook Air, 13'', Mid-2013), I've been using it for a month now. At the beginning, I used to use it until my battery was low (between 10 and 20%) and then charge it. Then I learnt that it's better to keep it plugged as much as possible (I have read this in other discussions and on the Apple page). The problem is that my battery is no longer a 100% of its capacity according to Cococnut Battery. It started with 99%, then back to 100%, then 98, 97... and now it varies from 97 to 98 (right now it says that my computer's current capacity is 6948 mAH). I don't know if this is normal, or if this is caused by the use I used to give to my macbook air at the beginning or by any other thing. I also have 19 loadcycles already. Besides, I have noticed that sometimes it jumps form 100% to 99% of battery pretty fast when I don't have it plugged, and I'm not sure if that happened before.
This is my first time dealing with a macbook and I don't know how these things are supposed to work, and I'm worried my battery might have any kind of problem and that's why itdoesn't have full capacity anymore, since I've been using it for only a month.
Also, sometimes it takes a little while to shut down. It usually takes 2 seconds, but sometimes it takes longer, maybe 20 seconds (first the screen turn white, then the loading icon appears and then it finally shuts down). Is this normal too for macbook airs?
Thanks for the help!

Those are only averages, for purposes of the battery 97 98 99 and 100 are the 'same thing'........theyre all estimates.
Normal on shut down, sometimes you can see a few seconds, sometimes 10, 15 seconds shut down.....depends on what and HOW much its shutting down before poweroff.   Normal.
ON BATTERY USE:
Keep it plugged in when near a socket so you keep the charging cycles down on your LiPo (lithium polymer) cells / battery, but not plugged in all the time. When not being used for several hours, turn it off.
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
"Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time."
General rule to remember of Lithium batteries is:
Never drain them LOW & dont always/often store them HIGH
While cycle count is commonly seen to be the “miles” on your Lithium Ion pack cell in your Macbook, which they are, this distinction is not a fine line at all, and it is a big misconception to “count charge cycles”
*A person who has, for example, 300 charge cycles on their battery and is recharging at say 50-60% remaining of a 100% charge has better battery usage and care than another person who has 300 charge cycles at say 15% remaining on a 100% charge.
DoD (depth of discharge) is far more important on the wear and tear on your Macbook battery than any mere charge cycle count. *There is no set “mile” or wear from a charge cycle in general OR in specific.    As such, contrary to popular conception, counting cycles is not conclusive whatsoever, rather the amount of deep DoD on an averaged scale of its use and charging conditions.
                          (as a very rough analogy would be 20,000 hard miles put on a car vs. 80,000 good miles being something similar)
*Contrary to some myths out there, there is protection circuitry in your Macbook and therefore you cannot overcharge it when plugged in and already fully charged
*However if you don’t plan on using it for a few hours, turn it OFF (plugged in or otherwise) ..*You don’t want your Macbook both always plugged in AND in sleep mode       (When portable devices are charging and in the on or sleep position, the current that is drawn through the device is called the parasitic load and will alter the dynamics of charge cycle. Battery manufacturers advise against parasitic loading because it induces mini-cycles.)
Keeping batteries connected to a charger ensures that periodic "top-ups" do very minor but continuous damage to individual cells, hence Apples recommendation above:   “Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time”, …this is because “Li-ion degrades fastest at high state-of-charge”.
                    This is also the same reason new Apple notebooks are packaged with 50% charges and not 100%.
LiPo (lithium polymer, same as in your Macbook) batteries do not need conditioning. However...
A lot of battery experts call the use of Lithium cells the "80% Rule" ...meaning use 80% of the charge or so, then recharge them for longer overall life.
Never let your Macbook go into shutdown and safe mode from loss of power, you can corrupt files that way, and the batteries do not like it.
The only quantified abuse seen to Lithium cells are instances when often the cells are repeatedly drained very low…. key word being "often"
Contrary to what some might say, Lithium batteries have an "ideal" break in period. First ten cycles or so, don't discharge down past 40% of the battery's capacity. Same way you don’t take a new car out and speed and rev the engine hard first 100 or so miles.
Proper treatment is still important. Just because LiPo batteries don’t need conditioning in general, does NOT mean they dont have an ideal use / recharge environment. Anything can be abused even if it doesn’t need conditioning.
From Apple on batteries:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
Storing your MacBook
If you are going to store your MacBook away for an extended period of time, keep it in a cool location (room temperature roughly 22° C or about 72° F). Make certain you have at least a 50% charge on the internal battery of your Macbook if you plan on storing it away for a few months; recharge your battery to 50% or so every six months roughly if being stored away. If you live in a humid environment, keep your Macbook stored in its zippered case to prevent infiltration of humidity on the internals of your Macbook which could lead to corrosion.
Considerations:
Your battery is subject to chemical aging even if not in use. A Lithium battery is aging as soon as its made, regardless.
In a perfect (although impractical) situation, your lithium battery is best idealized swinging back and forth between 20 and 85% SOC (state of charge) roughly.
Further still how you discharge the battery is far more important than how it is either charged or stored short term, and more important long term that cycle counts.
Ultimately counting charge cycles is of little importance. Abuse in discharging (foremost), charging, and storing the battery and how it affects battery chemistry is important and not the ‘odometer’ reading, or cycle counts on the battery.
Everything boils down to battery chemistry long term, and not an arbitrary number, or cycle count.
Keep your macbook plugged in when near a socket since in the near end of long-term life, this is beneficial to the battery.
Peace

When will the battery be fixed?

any ideas on when this issue will be fixed?
I'm losing about 1% every time I turn it on and do anything.
Posting a photo to Twitter? 1-2%.
Normal? I think not.
what say you?

Hello everyone!
I tested iOS 5.1.1 on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. Both having all iCloud features enabled and with push email.
iPhone 3GS by iTunes restore method and iPhone 4 by OTA.
I didn't find any difference in the battery life of 3GS but significant drain in iPhone 4.
We jus keep on blaming Apple for no reasons . If you follow these tips, it will definitely make huge difference in the battery life!. It made a significant difference for me on all the devices I own irrespective of the subversions of iOS 5.
I have select push notifications on both the devices and they're connected to 3G when outside home and WiFi when at home.
Backup and restore (If possible)
Firstly, I let the iPhone discharge down to 10% battery (charge it later to 100% without disturbing) jus to calibrate it and I did "Reset Location Warnings", "Reset Network Settings" and after that "Reset All Settings"
After the welcome setup, I turned off location services for (in system services) :
1. Diagnostics and Usage
2. Location based iAds
3. Setting Time Zone
- Turned off notification sounds for some apps which are not that important.
- Decreased the brightness down to 40% coz it is favorable for me, your choice to keep it lil low. (with auto-brightness)
- Bluetooth is always off (It is turned ON by default when we do "Reset All Settings")
- Auto Lock is 1 Minute.
- Here I experimented by turning off calenders in iCloud (which made moderate difference in the standby).
- Kept push email ON only for 1 account and manually fetching the other accounts (As per your preference and priority). I have even experimented on removing and setting up email accounts once again.
- When I open the app which has location based services, it now asks me whether to allow location or not, so even here as per preference, I selected "Yes/No" as per requirement. (Permissions asked after "Reset Location Warnings")
- I also turned off location-based weather coz it constantly keeps on using location frequently and even data to keep on updating it the frequently, so moderate drain)
I also follow these tips :
1. Turn off all the background apps when not required.
2. Turned off push notifications for the apps which I don't really require.
3. Turn off iTunes Ping from Restrictions.
4. Text alerts to be kept as minimum.
5. Turn off automatic downloads (For me, it is sheer waste of bandwidth)
6. In wi-fi settings (Turn off "Ask to Join Networks") why not select it manually if you want to save enough juice for the whole day?
Now I get a sufficient battery life for more than a day and it works like a charm.

Question I couldn't find anywhere about the battery!

Hi people!
I've tried to find the answer to my question pretty much everywhere but couldn't really find it anywhere!
This is from the user manual I think:
+For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through *at least one charge cycle per month* (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down).+
So they say that you should run down your iphone to 0% at least once a month, but I do it everytime I use it. Is that bad? I never recharge my iPhone when it's not completely empty or at least under 5%.
All answers I had found were to the opposite question: Is it okay to recharge it when it's not completely empty. But yes, that wasn't what I was looking for.
I hope someone can help me!
Edit: Also, when they say to run it down, do they mean run it down to 0% when using it, or leaving it on once it was charged to 100% and let it empty itself without using it?
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They do not say to run the phone down all the way. They say "one charge cycle" If you drain the battery to 50% remaining, recharge it to 100%, then repeat that process once more during the month, you have completed one FULL charge cycle that month.
A charge cycle is one full discharge/charge cycle, or the cumulative equivalent thereof made up of multiple partial discharge/charge cycles.
FULL discharge cycles are deleterious to Lithium cells - they reduce the useful life span much more so than more frequent partial cycles do.
The only reason to ever do a full or deep discharge cycle is to re-calibrate the battery indicator as the battery ages (since it inherently looses capacity over time), but personally, I likely only ever do such calibration cycles every 3-4 months, if that frequently.
The whole point of using smart Lithium cells is you can partially discharge and charge them all you want and they will last as long as possible (they DO have a finite useful lifespan, as does any and every chemical battery). I keep a charger at work, at home, in the car, and use them whenever it is convenient to do so, regardless of the charge state on the phone. That way my iPhone always has plenty of power when I need it, and its battery is likely to last as long as possible.
P.S. I used my 3Gs like that too, for some 19 (?) months, and its battery will still power that old iPhone for a good 5 or so hours of use (I'd estimate that it is still good for about 80%-85% of what it was capable of when new).
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What's the slot under the battery

Just received my new T400 yesterday, and was very excited about it.
have one question here. I noticed a place where the battery seven mental pins touch the laptop, under that place, there is a small plastic film with a board card with size similar to a micro-sd card. It has a figure also looks like a SD card (rectange with one corner cut). If I pull the plastic film, the card can also be pulled out, but the film stays in.
I can not find this anywhere in the manual. What is that slot suppose to do? I assume it's not the SD card reader, since it's on the left side of the laptop, not hide under where the battery fit in.
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I replaced the battery on my RAID card, when I booted my mac pro up, I get the folder with the question mark. I used a boot USB drive to boot and when I looked in the RAID utility, my RAID 5 volumes were no longer showing, advise.

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It would be interesting to see the slot on the picture.
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HUGE question, is the harddrive under the battery?

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