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To: Done, gone. who wrote (85482)	9/27/2009 2:32:55 PM
From: Murrey Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213182

It's nice to see you haven't lost your sense of sarcasm, Michal. I hear DELL has some pretty spiffy laptops. ;-)

To: Done, gone. who wrote (85482)	9/27/2009 2:51:09 PM
From: Doren	Respond to of 213182

It has EVERYTHING to do with the locked-tight, only a qualified, Apple technician can touch this precious toy mentality, built into the new, improved Mac designs. Much as I hate that too, it's part of the modern world. Cars and appliances are increasingly that way. My Toyota truck has a Carb, but my Tercel has injection? Turbo? I don't even know. Tuned it up the Tercel yesterday, and I don't miss replacing points. I think it has a lot to do with trade-offs, manufacturing costs. Maybe the longer lived battery would be a lot more expensive if it was swappable. You CAN buy a Mac Pro for a lot more than an iMac and modify it more easily. Not saying this is the case with Apple. Maybe they are intentionally limiting consumer access in order to pick up a few more bucks at their repair facilities. Probably more like a combination of manufacturing/profit/extra sales. They debate these types of things around a big table, and someone makes a decision... so far their decisions have made me money.

To: Done, gone. who wrote (85482)	9/27/2009 2:58:10 PM
From: Doren	Respond to of 213182

Hey I'm invested but... and I make it a point not to steal from People... but Apple is only a fictional "People." Is it bad to steal from a fictional entity? I know I'd be extremely uncomfortable lifting a laptop from an apple store but should I feel guilty listening to a downloaded iTunes song on a friends computer? Moral weather prediction: cloudy and hazy in the future. For my future's sake at least buy a legitimate system disk.

To: Done, gone. who wrote (85482)	9/27/2009 6:54:10 PM
From: Cogito	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

>>Yes, the new battery is AWESOME. Best ever, in every which way, except the tiny, itsy bitsy minor detail of not being user replaceable. That, of course has NOTHING to do with the AWESOME new battery. It has EVERYTHING to do with the locked-tight, only a qualified, Apple technician can touch this precious toy mentality, built into the new, improved Mac designs.<< D, G - Well, I disagree. I think it has to do with producing a notebook with longer battery life than ever before, both in terms of time between charges and useable life overall. The mentality of which you speak really doesn't jibe with the fact that, in the newer MBPs, the hard drive is considered a user-replaceable part. Once the bottom case is removed, one need only remove one captive screw to swap it out. And no, the warranty is not voided if one does that. I'm not certain the warranty would be voided if one had to replace the battery, either. In any case, given the expected life of these batteries, the machine won't be under warranty by the time it has to be replaced. I'm always a bit skeptical of criticisms that involve ascribing motive. If you don't have information about the decision process itself, and what went into it, I don't think it's logical to assume that you know about it. - Allen