(September 27, 2016 at 8:22 am)Tiberius Wrote: 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.
What you mean by opening it and disconnecting a delicate ribbon-cable clearly labelled "WARNING: DO NOT REMOVE BATTERY"? Oh, and that's if you happen to have a triwing screwdriver handy. And where are you going to buy a new battery from? You can't - you have to go to Apple and they won't sell you the battery, they'll sell you the battery replacement service. And when you do that they won't even give your old battery to keep as a spare either.
Your argument that you can make it thinner is nonsense (laptops do not need to be as thin as tablets either). A laptop battery simply attaches to a cut-out region of the base, providing its own covering - therefore it does not need to be substantially thicker. How about spill-resistant keyboards? This has been a standard feature of Lenovo laptops for ages. Dell, HP, Toshiba, ASUS, just about any brand you can think of has them now. Except Apple. I can't tell you how many times I spill shit on my PC keyboard - at least once or twice a year - that's why I keep a spare handy at all times. In fact at the moment this keyboard has a sticky F7 key (which is irrelevant since how often do you need to press it?)
Not only that, but Apple refuses to fix water damage under the statutory warranty which is illegal, because the company are total cunts that don't want to repair their products or honour Australian consumer law. In fact, they even diagnose products that have never had water damage as having it simply because when they opened it a marker was displaced.
Apple products are deliberately designed to fail, and they refuse to sell replacement parts - including batteries.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
