1/7 new macbook 17" THE BIG ONE not the portable, has a non removable
8 hour battery. Dicuss.
\_ it's like the airbook
\_ no it's not, it's giant and i'm not going to carry that thing
\_ stupid idea, will alienate customers.
\_ Who will it alienate? Assuming they can get longer battery
life (both charge and number of charges) who cares? So it costs
an extra 100-200 bucks to change your battery but most likely
you won't ever need to. (I use my laptops pretty heavilly and it
is only near the very end of their lives that the batteries start
to go. Give me 2x battery lifespan and that isn't going to be a
problem.) And if you do you save anyway because you replace the
battery less often.
\_ did you weld the hood shut on your bmw?
\_ if the hood didn't need to be opened until 4 years later,
and the car had little economic life after 4 years, that
might be a better analogy. A better analogy might be that
cars use a lot more electronics than they used to, so a
2009 BMW is a lot harder to self-maintain than an '82 bug.
\_ steve has syphilis and it's finally showing.
\_ Why not?
\_ Not as crazy as it sounds. I've only ever removed my battery to
upgrade the RAM, and a 8 hour battery life is very attractive,
since this past semester one of my classes was 2 hours and my
macbook barely made it each time. --t
\_ why are all these idiots sold on the 8 hours of battery life?
\_ because apple has never provided that before
\_ do they know you can get 8 hours of battery life with any
number of non-apple laptops?
\_ Not a thin(ish) top of the line, full power laptop with
a large screen. It's hard getting 8 hours out of a
netbook.
\_ Yes. But choice of OS > battery life. I'd rather run OS X
than Windows, and with Linux I have the nasty tendency to
play with everything until I muck things up to the point I
have to reinstall (so I keep it on my desktop, which I don't
use as much, and can keep it working). --t
have to reinstall (so I keep it on my desktop, which I
don't use as much, and can keep it working). --t |
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