The tale of the spontaneous reanimation of my MacBook battery

This is one of the few really strange things that has happened to me since I wnat from Windows to the happy land of Macintosh (apart from the fact that you cannot change anything more advanced than your wallpaper unless you have go through the über-maczealot licen$ing programme).

One evening my wife was surfing of my (unplugged) computer. After quite some time she asks me why there is a warning that the computer will shutdown in five minutes – and I tell her to connect it to the power outlet. And everything is fine. Until I realize a few hours later, that not only will it not recharge, it will not recognize the battery at all!

The battery has been near depletion a few times earlier, so it shouldn’t be that, but knowing that this is sometimes an issue – among other things – I let it rest for some time. Then I zapped both the PRAM and NVRAM or whatever they call them, everything there is to do according to the general tips out in the forums. I also installed some battery updates just in case. No effect at all.

This had been much less of a nuisance if it hadn’t proved to be almost impossible to work with a mac with a MagSafe connector without a battery as support for whenever you sneezed or breathed or something else making it temporarily disconnect. I finally glued the darn this to my mac, and it has never worked better…

Before commencing with the glueing together of parts I called Apples service people who noted that:

1. My insurance policy was since two or three month expired (bummer)
2. The only thing to do was donating a kidney to afford a replacement battery.

Since I’ve grown quite fond of my interior, I hence decided to test the gluing together my MagSafe components (violating my void insurance). It worked like a dream.

Now there was only left the strange shutdowns not related to the power cable – did I mention the Apple Software update shortly before this whole battery incident?

After a recent ITunes update in combination with the disconnection of the MacBook  from due to an imminent power failure – and forgetting to telling my wife about it – the computer then ran on batteries for quite some time until I noticed both that the power percentometer was back (recognition of the battery, yay), and the disconected power cable.

I left it alone to recharge, and now it seems to have never happened.

So, was this the hands of the Lord – or a sign that Apple should start rehiring to having enough competent personnel to work o both the iPhone and OS X..?