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Re:Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown by FireBeyond on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @04:24PM (#5215772)
> We don't understand the point of heavily-glued batteries. This kind of planned obsolesce is completely unnecessary.

And yet when they tore down an iPhone with its glued battery, nary a mention was mentioned of the inconvenience...

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Re:Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown by vvhn on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @06:15PM (#5216362)
>And yet when they tore down an iPhone with its glued battery, nary a mention was mentioned of the inconvenience..

A huge stink was made with the Retina Macbook Pros

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/opinion-apple-retina-...

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/v2h57/im_the_ifixit_gu...

Also, on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115942

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Re:Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown by sp332 on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @05:02PM (#5215972)
From the iPhone 5 teardown: "The battery comes out with a bit of prying once the front panel is removed." And there are no warnings that you shouldn't remove the battery and that to replace the battery you will need a whole new back assembly.

And I guess that's ignoring the fact that phones are expected to be hard to take apart whereas iFixit complained loudly about the non-repairability of the iMac. http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2544...

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