Re:Mac Pro: Failure and Future
by astrodust on Monday May 08, 2017 @06:00PM
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Battery will never happen, they're no longer a singular thing you can replace but a multitude of inter-connected parts, each carefully positioned and glued in place. Why is this a problem? Apple will replace it for a nominal fee should you be experiencing problems, and if it's a dramatic malfunction, like the dreaded bubble battery, they'll often replace it for free.
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Re:Mac Pro: Failure and Future
by jmanderley on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:58AM
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Because having a user-replaceable battery is much more convenient?
Convenient for who? Apple's explained, over and over, that a removable battery is a no-go in modern laptops, the amount of material required to encapsulate it and dock it eats up tremendous amounts of space.
Most people would rather have a 14 hour battery that's not replaceable than a 6 hour one that is.
I've had a lot of laptops in the last fifteen years and the only time I'd ever removed my battery was to add memory or a hard drive simply because it was in the way. Maybe one in a hundred people actually care about having a replaceable battery.