Don’t pay Apple to replace your worn out battery. Do it yourself!
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- Phillips #00 Screwdriver
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Don’t pay Apple to replace your worn out battery. Do it yourself!
Any laptop computer has a CMOS battery also known as RTC battery. The CMOS battery connects directly to the laptop system board and helps to retain important BIOS settings such as system time, date, BIOS configuration while the laptop is turned off or even when the main battery is removed.
The CMOS battery is rechargeable and it’s getting charged when the laptop is plugged into the mains.
CMOS batteries come in different shapes ans sizes.
On the picture below you see a basic coin cell CMOS battery. This type of batteries usually found in older laptops. This battery is removable and replaceable.

Any laptop computer has a battery pack which provides power to the laptop while it’s not connected to the wall-plug through AC/DC power adapter. Laptop batteries come in many different shapes and they are model-specific.
The laptop battery life depends upon many conditions and circumstances: screen brightness, intensity of running programs, the temperature of the working environment, etc…
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