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Does the iBook battery come charged in the box?
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Join Date: May 2001
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Same question.
Does the iBook battery come charged in the box?
I bet this hasn't been asked before.
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Yes. Well at least mine did.
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mine came with about 1 hr on the battery.
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I work for a reseller in Australia and as such have played with many an iBook (including my own). All of them came with partially charged batteries, some more than others. I haven't seen one completely charged but most have enough to install the OS etc and run for about 10-15Mins after that. I had one that was absolutely flat as a tack but 1out of 100+ ain't bad!!!
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Mine was fully charged  Came direct from the Apple store.
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"10 percent of computer users are Mac users, but remember,
we are the top 10 percent." - Douglas Adams 1952-2001
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Mine came fully charged. Bought from John Lewis department store in UK.
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Mine came fully charged from Outpost. With a free slinky! 
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I got a free slinky too!!!! Oh, and my battery was full.
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Isnt a slinky that rattle type toy for babies?
I want one
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hehe, no, slinky's are those spiral things, that you can push off stairs and they slink down. It looks like a really compressed spring
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Mine came very close to fully charged, if not all the way.
MacConnection is offering 256MB free with the DVD iBook (and probably the combo drive, too) - best deal I've seen so far!
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It is a lithium ion battery and should come with at least a partial charge. The reason for this is the rather finicky chemistry of a Li Ion battery. If a Lithium cell is actually discharged fully or overcharged, the chemical state can become dangerous. To prevent this, Li battery packs should include circuitry to disable the cell should it ever become overly discharged or overcharged. In other words, the system is designed to let the cells discharge only so far before disabling the ability to charge again for purposes of user safety. This means that the manufacturer should ship the cells with some degree of charge. The correlary of this is that Li Ion rechargeable batteries which have been sitting on the shelf a long time without use may go "bad" and refuse to charge even though they have never been used. This is because the self discharge of the cells has taken them below the point at which the recharge circuitry will allow safe recharge.
There are some new Lithium Polyymer packs which do not have this type of safety restrictions on allowable charge and discharge limits.
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