Skype Causing Battery to say "Not Charging"

I just bought a new Macbook Pro.
15", 8GB of Ram, 720 GB HDD with 7200 rpm, and 2.4 ghz i7 with antiglare screen.
Anyways I find that whenever I use Skype, my Macbook stops charing and at the top it says "not charging".
But as soon as I close Skype, it instantly starts charing and will recharge my battery in about an hour and a half.
I am running Lion 10.7.2 and have all update installed.
Is anyone else having this issue with their Mac?

Skype is a horrendous processor hog. It forces auto-switching to the power-hungry discrete GPU in any Mac that has one, and consumes such a huge share of the Mac's system resources that if anything else is drawing power at the same time, the machine may need more power than its AC adapter can provide. Battery charging is the first extra process to be discontinued under those conditions, allowing the power that was charging the battery to be used instead to meet the demands of Skype and whatever else is calling for power. This is normal, unfortunately.
If you're going to use Skype when your battery needs charging, first quit all other apps, disconnect all bus-powered peripherals, turn down screen brightness as far as you can stand, turn off wifi and Bluetooth if you aren't using them, and consider installing gfxCardStatus to prevent auto-switching to the discrete GPU.

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