I don’t know if this applies to other notebooks but at least Apple used to recommend that you do not remove the battery [0]. There’s a little more discussion on

I don’t know if this applies to other notebooks but at least Apple used to recommend that you do not remove the battery [0]. There’s a little more discussion on Super User [1] but there seems to be no definite answer. [0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20130615084258/http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2332 http://web.archive.org/web/20130615084258/http://support.app... [1]: http://superuser.com/a/12842 http://superuser.com/a/12842