What computer do you have?

[Tiberius]

In your opinion, maybe. However I have owned several non-Apple laptops in my life and none have been as durable, or have lasted longer than my MacBooks. My wife is currently using my 2009 MacBook Pro with all the original hardware and it works just as well as the day I got it. It might need a RAM upgrade soon, but that's easy enough (yes, it is user-serviceable despite what you claim).

So if planned obsolescence means it will last 7 years, I'm fine with that, and I'm also fine with the price tag.

User-serviceable means that you can replace the most common bits that wear out - in a laptop that's means the battery is the most important. Tell me can you buy a $40 battery from a store and install it, or do you need to give it to Apple so they can "service it" for you for $130? Worse still is the fact that Apple builds-in the batteries too, to further discourage user replacement. There's no valid reason to build it in, and plenty of good reasons not to. For example, you can use your laptop without needing a power source for twice as long if you take two batteries with you - whoops, can't do that with a Macbook.

Erm...yeah, you can remove the battery and replace it.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro...ement/3403

You can also replace the HDD and RAM.

As for your suggestion that there's no valid reason to build it in, I disagree. You make the laptop thinner when you don't have to have a mechanism to quick-eject the battery. Same reason Apple got rid of the built-in CD tray.

The MacBook battery lasts over 10 hours. Most people don't need it to last longer. Most people also don't carry around a spare laptop battery with them either. Your objection seems to be based on personal use and not general use. Apple is trying to appeal to a wide market.