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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by dntrkv on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:15PM (#26801844)
Have you seen the internals of a Macbook? There is no single battery, it's a few batteries (wired in series I believe)[0]

Making the battery removable would compromise on other parts of the design. Personally, a replaceable battery is very low on my list of wants.

[0] https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Retina-...

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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by nightowl_games on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @02:31AM (#26803657)
Having irreplaceable batteries makes your device have a very short lifespan. This is horrible for the environment. I'm typing this on a pixel 1 that I've replaced the battery in, and have used for 4+ years.

Laptops should have replaceable batteries. Period. If you get a new laptop every 2 years and don't know what it's like to have a perfectly good MacBook with 30minutes of battery life, then maybe you can just imagine being in that position and consider how globally impactful this anti consumer practice is.

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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by Toutouxc on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @06:58AM (#26805365)
> perfectly good MacBook with 30minutes of battery life

What the heck, all MacBook batteries are replaceable! Apple will do it for you in the first 6 years or so, and after that there are still 3rd party shops who will happily replace it.

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