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dijit
on Feb 27, 2017
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My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Exploded
That doesn't matter; most PCs and Macs (which are just PCs really) will flood the motherboard with power to wake everything up.
Where is that power going to come from if not the battery? you can't have any logic without power.
mikeash
on Feb 27, 2017
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It ought to have a hard cutoff right at the battery involving only simple electronics, no software, which prevents it from providing the rest of the computer with any power if the battery is at an unsafe temperature.
Cyph0n
on Feb 27, 2017
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You can have a small battery or capacitor that powers a small circuit that performs overheating checks pre-boot.
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Where is that power going to come from if not the battery? you can't have any logic without power.