Does removing the battery slow down the processor speed by half on a late 2009 Macbook?

Thanks for the quick reply Fredreric, actually it was your replies to others on this forum that first clued me to this possibility. The first link that you provided for the apple support site literature, however, is no longer available, while the second seems to apply to only MBPs, therein lies my confusion.....I couldn't find any literature on the apple support site to know the difference, and the tech was very insistent that it should not make a difference (going so far to say that CPU spped should not impact how quick or slow my webpages are loading...).

Sigh. Yet my computer is so very slow right now. I really don't get apple.

Thanks again.

An update for the situation:

Yesterday I went to the apple store and referenced them to the one article that's still viable and suggested that they check if that's the reason why my macbook slowed down so much. The genius intially agreed with the possibility but went to the back to check something. After he came back, he was firm that it could not be battery related but instead must be a software issue. From there he reinstalled my OS X, and that didn't work, so he wanted to erase (everything) and reinstall, and that didn't work. At that point I was in the store for almost five hours and asked him plenty of times during if he was sure it was software issue and not battery related, since it just seemed such a freaky coincidence that software should act up at this point, right after the battery removal. He was POSITIVE. So, imagine the look on his face when the erase and reinstall didn't work at the end of those five hours. He then asked me if he could take the machine to the back to run "other tests". I asked him what he was going to do, and he said probably check the hardware also.

When he finally came back, it was confirmed: it was indeed because of the battery removal that the computer slowed down so much. I was there almost 6 hours at this point.

The good news is he was nice enough to give me a free battery, since it was such a fiasco. From the way he talked it seemed that he actually thought it was the battery as well, but the "people in the back" just kept telling him no way, and he had to do what they said first. I thanked him for giving me a free battery. All is well now.

So all that to say: APPLE TROTTLES YOUR CPU IF YOU USE THE MACBOOK WITH BATTERY REMOVED, POWER PC AND INTEL ALIKE, AT LEAST FOR UP TO THE LATE 2009 MODEL.