Reaching closure with my Thinkpad

So I finally figured out what the problem was with my Thinkpad. It was the battery that is going south. Every time the machine won't boot, I now pop out the battery and put it back in and Voila! it works perfectly. The behavior would seem to indicate that my trusty notebook or at least the battery is assuming a canine personality and requires to be taken out once in a while to be happy. I should as a contingency get a new one I guess. In the meantime, I'm still lamenting that if I wasn't as geeky or had geeky friends, my ignorance of technical matters would mean I would be wallowing in happiness with a new Mac. Alas, fate is not so kind...