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You can replace it yourself, just that you need screwdrivers. So it's
not "replaceable" mid-flight, but it's replaceable at home. Expect
$80 (or less) batteries you can buy from Hong Kong on eBay and then
follow a step-by-step pictorial guide from iFixIt, when 2-3 years from
now you'd rather change the battery than buy a new 8-core MacBook Pro
with 4TB storage and 32GB of RAM.
On 7/5/09, Claude M. Schrader <plug@claudeschrader.com> wrote:
> On 10:28 Sun 05 Jul , Eric wrote:
>> Claude M. Schrader wrote:
>> > On 15:50 Fri 03 Jul , Brian Vagnoni wrote:
>> >> So what are folks feelings on the new Macbook and the non-removable
>> >> battery?
>> >
>> > One of the advantages of having the non-removable battery is that it
>> > lets
>> > them squeeze in more cells. I keep hearing the battery life on the new
>> > macbooks are amazing. David Pogue said his intern gets 6.5 hours on his.
>> > Anandtech got 8! Apple also claims that this generation of batteries
>> > should have a way longer lifespan than in the past iirc.
>> >
>> > http://anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3580&p=4
>>
>> If it runs the computer about 50% longer per charge than a removable
>> battery
>> allows and the battery has a longer useful life then the only question I
>> have is
>> what happens when the battery reaches the end of it's useful life some
>> years
>> down the road?
>>
>> In other words: is this non-removable battery replaceable by Apple factory
>> techs
>> or does the Macbook pro become a power-tethered system only?
>>
>> Eric
>
> http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/service/battery/
>
> It looks like the batteries for the new macbooks are $129 (the same price
> as a user-replacable battery), and includes installation by the Mac
> "Genius" at your local apple store.
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