Steve Jobs just announced he is taking a medical leave from Apple until June of 2009. Rumors that Jobs was suffering from a serious medical condition were recently confirmed by Jobs. He is currently on medication to try to correct his illness.

Get well soon.

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Steve Jobs is trying to put Apple stockholders, and Apple product owners, at ease regarding the rumors that he is very sick, and could die soon. Jobs wrote a letter below dated January, 5, 2009:

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This video presents a visual history of Apple products. While Steve Jobs was away from Apple, their products didn’t change much, but when he returned suddenly their products were innovative and colorful. We keep hearing Jobs is sick. Apple will be lost without him.

A Greenwich High School student wrote a letter to Steve Jobs asking for a "high school educational" discount on Final Cut Pro software. He received a reply the next day from Richard Townhill, Director, Pro Video Product Marketing asking for the students mailing address. A week later, he had $1300 worth of software sitting on his doorstep free of charge! Not too shabby, eh?

This was the response.

Then a week later, this is what he got.

According to various sources, running your MacBook or MacBookPro without its battery will cause a noticeable performance decrease. Those of you who adopt this practice in order to squeeze out an extra month or two of battery life will find your Apple laptops run 40 or even 50 percent less efficiently.

This is apparently by design: The company made it so processor speed is lowered when the unit detects that its relying solely on A/C to power itself. It begins to demand less power than usual in order to avoid unpleasant shutdowns. The end result is your programs will start running slowly.

Faulty line of reasoning or not, best keep that battery resting snugly where it belongs. If you think this has been happening to you, click here to run Cinebench to benchmark your Apple system.