Re:Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improv...
by xorcist on Friday April 17, 2020 @03:03AM
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Non-removable just means it's soldered down. Open a phone and you will see that the batteries certainly have just the kind of plastic shell that they always had.
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Re:Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improv...
by serf on Friday April 17, 2020 @07:42AM
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most phones and tablets i've worked on recently certainly do not have any plastic shell on non-removable batteries; unless you consider shrink tubing a shell.
They are usually constructed of layers of battery material, wrapped in kapton tape or an equivalent, with the entire package shrink-tubed and a pigtail coming out the side for the device interface.
One could easily crush the unit by hand, the construction offers little to no protection from physical forces.