It comes in varying degrees. In minor cases, you might notice that a battery cover is slightly difficult to install or that a device with a built-in battery doesn’t feel quite flat. The battery might even still look flat under casual inspection.

I had a 17" MacBook Pro I purchased in 2008 that experienced a bloated battery after a few years. It didn’t damage the laptop but it did convince me to buy a new battery.

The interior of a car can be a surprisingly harsh environment, especially in the summer. 10 years later, I’m amazed it still works at all.

Interesting about the temperatures. Ten years ago I bought my first car that had the ability to connect an iPod. I bought an 80GB iPod Classic simply so I could have my whole music library in my car. A decade later I still use it, and it only ever leaves the car to have music added to it.

I wouldn’t call that a nitpick.

Thank you for pointing that out. I opened this article just to see if anyone else realized that.

I was about to say, I was expecting I might need to replace my capacitors to keep my batteries longer lasting.

Good article, but I have to nitpick about what’s depicted in the lead photo. Those big cylindrical things both on and off the circuit board are capacitors, not batteries.

I only knew the fair catch one, and might have guessed the option play based on context clues if I hadn’t already read the answer in the article.

My wife and I were all ready to try this out (we both have worked for companies that made DNA and RNA testing in the past, and are reasonably proficient with the principles of the science), and then I read the privacy policies. Nope.