Re:Battery, RAM, and HD access on new 17-inch Macbook Pro
by mdd on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @10:46PM
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The problem, really, is that Apple no longer sells a professional laptop
Unless your profession is laptop tinkering, this statement is absurd.
Clearly Apple believes that more "pro" users would rather have more power in their lone battery
than the opportunity to swap (and carry) multiple batteries.
This certainly matches my experience.
I'm a developer who uses my Mac both at home and at work and I'm on my third Apple laptop at the moment.
I spend 8-10 hrs a day on my laptop and I have never needed to use a second battery.
if you can't swap out the battery on the go and replace its hard drive with minimal hassle, it's definitely not "pro"
I have upgraded the memory and hard drive in every one of my laptops so I can understand this reaction but
it really needs to be thought of as a cost-benefit problem.
A lighter and stronger case benefits me over the entire life of the laptop whereas easier access
to the upgradable components saves me 45 minutes on the one or two occasions I am upgrading them.
That seems like a good trade-off to me.
The glossy, low-gamut, sub-HD LCD panels on most Apple laptops, however, continue to disappoint.
Unless your profession is laptop tinkering, this statement is absurd.
Clearly Apple believes that more "pro" users would rather have more power in their lone battery than the opportunity to swap (and carry) multiple batteries.
This certainly matches my experience. I'm a developer who uses my Mac both at home and at work and I'm on my third Apple laptop at the moment. I spend 8-10 hrs a day on my laptop and I have never needed to use a second battery.
if you can't swap out the battery on the go and replace its hard drive with minimal hassle, it's definitely not "pro"
I have upgraded the memory and hard drive in every one of my laptops so I can understand this reaction but it really needs to be thought of as a cost-benefit problem.
A lighter and stronger case benefits me over the entire life of the laptop whereas easier access to the upgradable components saves me 45 minutes on the one or two occasions I am upgrading them.
That seems like a good trade-off to me.
The glossy, low-gamut, sub-HD LCD panels on most Apple laptops, however, continue to disappoint.