Using you macbook whilst on charge with battery disconnected?

does this work?
if so wouldnt it save battery life in theory because you're using the battery less if your giving it direct power from your socket to macbook via the charger
???

I run it all the time without the battery. It does run at 1 Ghz for while, but it goes back up. I haven't figured out when or why, (maybe if you put it to sleep and wake it up?) but it definitely happens. And I very much doubt you'll notice a different in speed, unless you're encoding mp3s or somehting, or working in photoshop, or some other data-processing intensive task.
For instance, when browsing the web, the bottleneck is internet speed. When copying files, it's the harddrive, etc. etc.

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